Content   Contents   Foreword, Acknowledgements   1. Harmonised assessment of risk and risk management for water-related infectious disease: an overview   2. Guidelines: the current position   3. The Global Burden of Disease study and applications in water, sanitation and hygiene   4. Endemic and epidemic infectious intestinal disease and its relationship to drinking water   5. Excreta-related infections and the role of sanitation in the control of transmission   6. Disease surveillance and waterborne outbreaks   7. Epidemiology: a tool for the assessment of risk   8. Risk assessment   9. Quality audit and the assessment of waterborne risk   10. Acceptable risk   11. A public health perspective for establishing water-related guidelines and standards   12. Management strategies   13. Indicators of microbial water quality   14. Risk communication   15. Economic evaluation and priority setting in water and sanitation interventions   16. Implementation of guidelines: some practical aspects   17. Regulation of microbiological quality in the water cycle   18. Framework for guidelines development in practice   Index