Description:
Drinking water safety is often at the forefront of water-related health concerns, but there also are critical public health issues associated with recreational water This session addresses public health hazards and benefits of recreational waters including lakes and pools. The session will describe data on swimmers from the Cooper Clinic database showing that exercise swimmers have half the mortality risk of exercise walkers or runners—findings that may have implications for combating multiple chronic diseases. This session also will address concerns associated with lake use, near-shore settlement, and waste disposal—and their effects on these biogenic toxin levels—as well as novel detection methods for contamination. |