date:Apr 21, 2014
er treatment methods, agricultural land use (e.g. grassland or cropland), and river flow rate.
The tool also accounts for public behaviour, for example, it estimates how much water is typically swallowed by swimmers.
The tool shows that the effects of flow rate are greater than the effects of dilution onCampylobacter infection risk.
The net effect of heavy rainfall is thus a higher risk of infection, because the pathogen has little time to die-off in the fast flowing waters.
To assess food p