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Drinking water Commission
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The German Drinking water Commission (Trinkwasserkommission - TWK) is a national expert body of the German Federal Ministry of Health (Bundesministerium für Gesundheit - BMG) within the Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt - UBA). The Commission advises both public offices on issues of drinking water hygiene.
The BMG, the Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit - BMU), and supreme environmental authorities in the Laender jointly appoint Commission members for a three-year session.
Membership in the TWK is honorary. Commission members come from university institutes, federal state public offices, public health offices, and waterworks. In addition to appointed members and frequent visitors, meetings are also attended by delegates from BMG, BMU, and the Federal Ministry of Defence (Bundesministerium der Verteidigung - BMVg), the Federal Railway Authority, and UBA. If necessary, the Commission invites additional experts.
The Drinking water Commission discusses current issues and problems in drinking water hygiene and makes recommendations that are especially bound to preventative health care. The Drinking water Commission’s recommendations mainly serve as a common platform for action by public health offices and water suppliers—in addition to the regulations of the Drinking water Ordinance.
Members of the Commission in the 2011-2014 appointment period:
Chairman:
- Prof. Dr. Martin Exner, Hygiene-Institut der Universität Bonn (Hygiene Institute of the University of Bonn)
Deputy Chairman:
- Dr. Wilfried Puchert, Landesamt für Gesundheit und Soziales Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin (State Office for Public Health and Social Affairs)
Other members:
- Dipl.-Chem. Lothar Bartzsch, Landesuntersuchungsanstalt für das Gesundheits- und Veterinärwesen Sachsen, Dresden
- Dr. Claudia Castell-Exner, Deutscher Verein des Gas- und Wasserfaches e. V. (German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water), Bonn
- Michael Gaßner MPH, Bundesverband Hygieneinspektoren e. V., Freiburg
- Prof. Dr. Christiane Höller, Bayerisches Landesamt für Gesundheit und Lebensmittelsicherheit, Oberschleißheim
- Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Hörsgen, Gelsenwasser AG, Gelsenkirchen
- Dr. Dietmar Petersohn, Berliner Wasserbetriebe, Berlin (Berlin Waterworks)
- Dipl.-Chem. Uta Rädel, Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz (State Office for Consumer Protection) Sachsen-Anhalt, Magdeburg
- Dr. Doris Reick, Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart – Landesgesundheitsamt
- Dipl.-Ing. Rainer Roggatz, WSW Energie & Wasser AG, Wuppertal
- Dr. Roland Suchenwirth, Niedersächsisches Landesgesundheitsamt, Hannover (Governmental Institute for Public Health of Lower Saxony)
- Kerstin Voigt, Amt für Gesundheit, Frankfurt am Main
- Prof. Dr. Michael Wilhelm, Institut für Hygiene-, Sozial- und Umweltmedizin der Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Department of Hygiene, Social and Environmental Medicine, Ruhr University, Bochum)
