Chemical hazards in drinking-water
The WHO Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality include facts sheets and comprehensive review documents for many individual chemicals. For many of these, guideline values are derived. All of these can be accessed through the following alphabetical list. Summary tables of guideline values are also available.
OTHER INFORMATION THAT MAY BE OF INTEREST:
Work in progress and drafts for the "Rolling revision" of the guidelines
Managing chemical hazards in drinking-water
Radiological hazards in drinking-water
D
A
B
C
- Cadmium
- Carbaryl
- Carbofuran
- Carbon Tetrachloride
- Chloralhydrate (trichloroacetaldehyde)
- Chlordane
- Chloride
- Chlorine
- Chlorite and Chlorate
- Chloroacetones
- Chlorophenols
- Chlorophenoxy herbicides
- Chloropicrin
- Chlorotoluron
- Chlorpyrifos
- Chromium
- Copper
- Cyanazine
- Cyanide
- Cyanobacterial toxins
- see Microcystin-LR
- Cyanogen chloride
- Cylindrospermopsin
D
E
- Edetic acid (EDTA)
- Endosulfan
- Endrin
- Epichlorohydrin
- Ethylbenzene
- Ethylene dibromide
- see 1,2-Dibromoethane
H
M
P
S
About Water Sanitation Health
Recent publications
-
Valuing water, valuing livelihoods
1 November 2011 -
Evaluating household water treatment options
7 July 2011 -
Guidelines for drinking-water quality, fourth edition
27 June 2011 -
Pharmaceuticals in drinking-water
1 June 2011 -
First consultation on post-2015 monitoring of drinking-water and sanitation
5 May 2011