Content   Contents   Structure of this book, acknowledgements and acronyms and abbreviations   Section I: Scientific background Groundwater and public health Groundwater occurrence and hydrogeological environments Pathogens: Health relevance, transport and attenuation Chemicals: Health relevance, transport and attenuation Socioeconomic, institutional and legal aspects in groundwater assessment and protection   Section II: Understanding the drinking-water catchment Collecting information for characterizing the catchment and assessing pollution potential Characterization of the socioeconomic, institutional and legal setting Assessment of aquifer pollution vulnerability and susceptibility to the impacts of abstraction Agriculture: Potential hazards and information needs Human excreta and sanitation: Potential hazards and information needs Industry, mining and military sites: Potential hazards and information needs Waste disposal and landfill: Potential hazards and information needs Traffic and transport: Potential hazards and information needs   Section III: Situation analysis Assessment of groundwater pollution potential Establishing groundwater management priorities   Section IV: Approaches to drinking-water source protection management Water Safety Plans: Risk management approaches for the delivery of safe drinking-water from groundwater sources Groundwater protection zones Sanitary completion of protection works around groundwater sources Hydrological management   Section V: Approaches to pollution source management Policy and legal systems to protect groundwater Agriculture: Control and protection Human excreta and sanitation: control and protection Industry, mining and military sites: control and protection Waste disposal and landfill: control and protection Traffic and transport: control and protection   Index