Specialty

Water supply engineering, Sanitation engineering, Urban environmental engineering

Works

Research reports

1 Dai Simazaki, Takanori Masuda, Taro Miyoshi, Shogo Nitta．Literature review on domestic/overseas regulations regarding potential of reaching chemicals from water supply equipment．Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Health, Labour and Welfare, Comprehensive Research Project on Health, Safety and Crisis Management Measures “Research on the development of safety assessment schemes for new and unregulated materials in water supply equipment. “（Principal Investigator: Takanori Masuda. Grant Number: 23LA1005） Reiwa FY5 final research report; 2024.

2 Dai Simazaki, Yoshinori Honma, Kei Shimonosono．Survey on the actual conditions of the water supply environment and the subjective views of users．Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Health, Labour and Welfare, Comprehensive Research Project on Health, Safety and Crisis Management Measures “Research for the verification of voluntary maintenance and management methods by owners/managers of medium-sized buildings.”（Principal Investigator: Yoshinori Honma. Grant Number: 22LA1011） Reiwa FY5 final research report; 2024.

Original papers

1 Iftita Rahmatika, Dai Simazaki, Futoshi Kurisu, Hiroaki Furumai, Ikuro Kasuga. Occurrence and Diversity of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Affected by Water Stagnation in Building Plumbing. Water Supply 2023;23(12):5017-5028.

2 Dai SIMAZAKI, Takuya MARUBAYASHI, Takahiro YOKOI, Akie WATANABE, Shigeyuki NOMOTO, Manabu ICHIKAWA, Masahiko KIYOZUKA. Questionnaire Survey on Installation of Online Water Quality Monitors and Data Utilization for Water Supply Systems in Japan. Journal of Water Environmental Technology 2022; 20(1), 21-27.

Reviews

1 Dai SIMAZAKI. Securing good hygiene for private water supply and plumbing system．The Journal of Public Health Practice, 2021；85(2)：72-77.

2 Dai SIMAZAKI. Examples of information provisions and responses to water utilities regarding COVID-19． Journal of Japan Society on Water Environment, 2021；43A(12)：417-418.

Books

1 Dai Simazaki．2-3-3 Initiatives for hygienically safe drinking water supply. Encyclopedia of Water Environment．Japan Society for Water Environment. Tokyo; Asakura Publishing Co., Ltd., 2021

2 Dai Simazaki, Sadahiko Itoh, Takayuki Miura, Yasuhiro Asada, et., al. （Translation in Japanese）．Quantitative microbial risk assessment: Application for water safety management. National Institute of Public Health．ISBN: 978-4-903997-10-0

Conference presentations

1 Dai SIMAZAKI, Taro MIYOSHI, Ikuro KASUGA, Michihiro AKIBA. Identifying key water purification processes and key bacteria contributing to the residual endotoxin in drinking water. 2023 AWWA Water Quality Technology Conference; 2023.11.5-9; Dallas, US). TUE01-2

2 Dai Simazaki, Taro Miyoshi, Ikuro Kasuga, Michihiro Akiba. Fate of Endotoxin in the Entire Water Purification Processes including Wastewater Treatment at a Drinking Water Purification Plant. 9th IWA Aspire Conference and Exhibition; 2023.10.22-26; Kaohsiung, Taiwan. 00115.

Social contributions

Committee member, Expert committee of microbial issues on water supply, Water supply division, Pharmaceutical safety and environmental health bureau, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare（http://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/shingi/other-kenkou.html?tid=128628）

Council member, Water and sewerage council, Asaka city

Committee member, Standing committee on hygiene, Japan Water Works Association

Committee member, Water purification technology committee, Japan Water Research Center

Core/committee member, subcommittee of water supply infrastructure rehabilitation, Environmental engineering committee, Japan Society of Civil Engineers