Learn everything about drinking water. This section not only aims at providing information, but also at putting you in touch with research findings of global authorities on water.
   
 
WHO's Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality
  WHO produces international norms on water and health in the form of Guidelines.
You can link here to :
 
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The full text of the current edition of the Guidelines
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Information on the process of rolling revision of the Guidelines including ongoing revisions
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Previous editions of the Guidelines and earlier International Standards

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  source: http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/en/
 
 
Training material on drinking-water quality guidelines
  The Water Sanitation and Health Programme has produced training materials for improving health protection on the following topics:
 
  • conducting health impact assessments;
  • vector control and biology;
  • managing drinking water quality;
  • managing wastes from health-care activities; and
  • for developing participatory approaches for the control of diarrhoeal disease
 
  Documents available:
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Intersectoral decision-making skills in support of health impact assessment of development projects
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Agricultural Development and Vector-Borne Diseases
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PHAST Step-by-Step Guide: A Participatory Approach for the Control of Diarrhoeal Diseases
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Teacher's guide: Management of wastes from health-care activities
  source: http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/en/
 
 
Water resources quality
  Freshwater is limited and its quality is under constant pressure. Preserving freshwater quality is important for drinking-water supply, food production and recreational water use.
 
  source: http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/en/
 
 
Arsenic in drinking-water
  Rezaul Morol, a young Bangladeshi man, nearly died from arsenic poisoning caused by drinking arsenic-laden well-water for several years. The doctor advised Rezaul to stop drinking contaminated water and eat more protein-rich food such as fish.
Arsenic in drinking-water is a hazard to human health. It has attracted much attention since recognition in the 1990s of its wide occurrence in well-water in Bangladesh.
 
  source: http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/en/
 
 
Other on-line documents relating to drinking-water quality
  On-line documents relating to drinking-water quality
 
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Managing water in the home: accelerated health gains from improved water supply
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Heterotrophic Plate Count Measurement in Drinking Water Safety Management
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Water Quality - Guidelines, Standards and Health: Assessment of Risk and Risk Management for Water-Related Infectious Disease

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Evaluation of the H2S method for detection of faecal contamination of drinking-water
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Quantifying public health risks in the WHO Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality
 
  source: http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/en/
   
   
   
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