Boehm Alexandria B, Ashbolt Nicholas J, Colford John M, Dunbar Lee E, Fleming Lora E, Gold Mark A, Hansel Joel A, Hunter Paul R, Ichida Audrey M, McGee Charles D, Soller Jeffrey A, Weisberg Stephen B
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
J Water Health. 2009 Mar;7(1):9-20. doi: 10.2166/wh.2009.122.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency is committed to developing new recreational water quality criteria for coastal waters by 2012 to provide increased protection to swimmers. We review the uncertainties and shortcomings of the current recreational water quality criteria, describe critical research needs for the development of new criteria, as well as recommend a path forward for new criteria development. We believe that among the most needed research needs are the completion of epidemiology studies in tropical waters and in waters adversely impacted by urban runoff and animal feces, as well as studies aimed to validate the use of models for indicator and pathogen concentration and health risk predictions.
美国环境保护局致力于在2012年前制定新的沿海水域休闲水质标准，以加强对游泳者的保护。我们审视了当前休闲水质标准存在的不确定性和不足之处，描述了制定新标准所需的关键研究，同时为新标准的制定推荐了前进方向。我们认为，最迫切需要开展的研究包括在热带水域以及受城市径流和动物粪便不利影响的水域完成流行病学研究，以及旨在验证用于指示物和病原体浓度及健康风险预测的模型的研究。
