Guidelines for drinking-water quality / World Health Organization.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Also issued online.

1 Introduction -- 1.1 General considerations and principles -- 1.2 Roles and responsibilities in drinking-water safety management -- 1.3 Supporting resources to the guidelines -- 2 A conceptual framework for implementing the Guidelines -- 2.1 Health-based targets -- 2.2 Water safety plans -- 2.3 Surveillance -- 2.4 Verification of drinking-water quality -- 2.5 Identifying priority concerns -- 2.6 Developing drinking-water quality standards -- 2.7 Drinking-water regulations and supporting policies and programmes -- 3 Health-based targets -- 3.1 Setting health-based targets -- 3.2 Disability-adjusted life years, tolerable disease burden and reference level of risk -- 3.3 Types of health-based targets -- 4. Water safety plans -- 4.1 System assessment and design -- 4.2 Operational monitoring and maintaining control -- 4.3 Verification -- 4.4 Management procedures for piped distribution systems -- 4.5 Management of community and household water supplies -- 4.6 Documentation and communication -- 4.7 Planned review -- 5 Surveillance -- 5.1 Types of approaches -- 5.2 Adapting approaches to specific circumstances -- 5.3 Adequacy of supply -- 5.4 Planning and implementation -- 5.5 Reporting and communicating.

6 Application of the Guidelines in specific circumstances -- 6.1 Climate change, water scarcity and heavy rainfall -- 6.2 Rainwater harvesting -- 6.3 Vended water -- 6.4 Bulk water supply -- 6.5 Desalination systems -- 6.6 Dual piped water supply systems -- 6.7 Emergencies and disasters -- 6.8 Temporary water supplies -- 6.9 Buildings -- 6.10 Health-care facilities -- 6.11 Safe drinking-water for travellers -- 6.12 Aircraft and airports -- 6.13 Ships -- 6.14 Packaged drinking-water -- 6.15 Food production and processing -- 7 Microbial aspects -- 7.1 Microbial hazards associated with drinking-water -- 7.2 Health-based target setting -- 7.3 Occurrence and treatment of pathogens -- 7.4 Microbial monitoring -- 7.5 Methods of detection of faecal indicator organisms -- 7.6 Identifying local actions in response to microbial water quality problems and emergencies -- 8 Chemical aspects -- 8.1 Chemical hazards in drinking-water -- 8.2 Derivation of chemical guideline values -- 8.3 Analytical achievability -- 8.4 Treatment -- 8.5 Guideline values for individual chemicals, by source category -- 8.6 Pesticides used in water for public health purposes -- 8.7 Identifying local actions in response to chemical water quality problems and emergencies -- 9 Radiological aspects -- 9.1 Sources and health effects of radiation exposure -- 9.2 Rationale for screening levels and guidance levels -- 9.3 Monitoring and assessment for dissolved radionuclides -- 9.4 Guidance levels for radionuclides commonly found in drinking-water -- 9.5 Analytical methods -- 9.6 Remedial measures -- 9.7 Radon -- 9.8 Risk communication -- 10 Acceptability aspects: Taste, odour and appearance -- 10.1 Biologically derived contaminants -- 10.2 Chemically derived contaminants -- 10.3 Treatment of taste, odour and appearance problems -- 10.4 Temperature -- 11 Microbial fact sheets -- 11.1 Bacterial pathogens -- 11.2 Viral pathogens -- 11.3 Protozoan pathogens -- 11.4 Helminth pathogens -- 11.5 Toxic cyanobacteria -- 11.6 Indicator organisms -- 12 Chemical fact sheets -- 12.1 Chemical contaminants in drinking-water -- 12.2 Pesticides used for vector control in drinking-water sources and containers.