Water-borne Illness

System failure to blame for outbreaks in Canada

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 20th, 2003

A new study by University of Toronto researchers suggests that front-line workers in the tainted-water tragedies of Walkerton, Ontario, and North Battleford, Saskatchewan, were not solely to blame for the outbreaks.

Instead, said the researchers, water contamination resulted from many failures in a complex system involving workers, local governments, regulatory bodies and provincial governments. "There are interactions and relationships across all these levels, and everybody has a role to play," said Kim Vicente, a professor in the department of mechanical and industrial engineering and coauthor of the study. "When you get cracks across those relationships, you get...

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Source: TB and Outbreaks Week (2003-05-20)

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