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Animal Waste, Water Quality and Human Health

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Comparative risk analysis 383• Dilution, <strong>and</strong>• The effectiveness <strong>and</strong> reliability of implementation of actions taken tominimize contamination of the water from the source considered.More detailed discussion of mobilisation <strong>and</strong> transport, <strong>and</strong> means of assessing <strong>and</strong>minimising this, are presented in Chapters 6, 7 <strong>and</strong> 8. Growth of pathogens in theenvironment is assumed not to occur under scenarios relevant to this comparativerisk model.Question 6: Proximity of Source to Exposure Site. In addition to the effect of timeon the extent of pathogen inactivation (see Question 7, below), the likelihood thatthe pathogen will reach the water body is reduced due to absorption onto soilparticles, predation, <strong>and</strong> so on. Accordingly, risk to recreational water users willbe reduced the further the contamination source (i.e., the animals that are thesource of the faeces) is from the water body, or water supplying the water body.The question is phrased as a statement to be completed, that is, “Proximity ofsource to the exposure site is …” with four possible responses offered. Thoseresponses, <strong>and</strong> the relative risk assigned to them are:immediate (direct deposition) relative risk = 1close (

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