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Safe water is essential to human health. This session will describe ways to protect water, detect water contamination, and how to assess health risk from exposure to contaminated drinking water. One presenter will highlight the response and impact of a recreational cryptosporidiosis outbreak associated with a city pool in Albuquerque. Another talk will describe the use of syndromic surveillance, specifically sales of over-the-counter drugs to detect waterborne disease. Discussants will underscore the benefits and limitations in using this type of syndromic surveillance. Lastly the session will include two talks on health risks, one on peri-conceptional exposure and the other on cancer mortality downstream of industrial sites.

Session Objectives: Attendees of this session will discuss how to describe ways to protect water, detect water contamination, and how to assess health risk from exposure to contaminated drinking water. Specifically attendees will be able to: 1. Identify potential cancer outcomes related to exposure to surface water contaminants 2. Describe the utility of remediation policies on the hyper chlorination of recreational pools contaminated with cryptosporidium 3. Discuss the benefits and disadvantages of syndromic surveillance in detecting waterborne disease 4. Learn how GIS can be used to assess water quality

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)