Workshop on Microbial Source Tracking in Water

This report summarizes the result of a workshop of 45 experts representing water and wastewater utilities, academia, state and federal government agencies, medical institutions, and private laboratories that convened in San Antonio, Texas in February 2005. The objective of the workshop was to identify the knowledge gaps and research needs for application of microbial source tracking techniques by the wastewater and drinking water industries. The general conclusion was that there is a role for MST as long as it is part of an overall strategy that includes: multiple congruent methods; traditional land use, sanitary, and wildlife surveys; the geographic scale is not too large; and defined criteria of standardization, quality assurance and quality control, and measures of data quality are met. Published by WERF. 114 pages. Soft cover.

Originally funded as WERF project 03-HHE-3.