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Guidelines for drinking-water quality

Training materials

Please note that this training pack is currently being revised

These training materials cover a wide range of topics and include 23 sessions - both presentations and practical sessions. Each presentation in the materials includes a session plan, a background paper and overhead transparencies. Each practical session provides guidance as to how such sessions might be delivered and the materials required.

Training materials can be downloaded from this site. They are provided in PDF format only.

- Water and public health [pdf 85kb]
- The WHO guidelines for drinking-water quality [pdf 79kb]
- Microbiological aspects [pdf 85kb]
- Disinfectants and disinfection by-products [pdf 148kb]
- Inorganic constituents and aesthetic parameters [pdf 140kb]
- Organic chemicals [pdf 37kb]
- Pesticides in drinking water [pdf 42kb]
- Monitoring and assessment of microbiological quality [pdf 115kb]
- Monitoring and assessment of chemical quality [pdf 61kb]
- Guidelines for drinking water quality Volume 3 [pdf 178kb]
- Source protection [pdf 186kb]
- Water treatment [pdf 233kb]
- Disinfection [pdf 123kb]
- Water treatment chemicals and construction materials [pdf 65kb]
- Institutional frameworks [pdf 104kb]
- Legislative frameworks [pdf 77kb]
- Establishing national drinking-water standards [pdf 105kb]
- Human resources [pdf 96kb]
- Cost recovery [pdf 87kb]
- Microbiology [pdf 10kb]
- Disinfection [pdf 11kb]
- Sanitary inspection [pdf 33kb]
- Sanitary inspection [pdf 1.43Mb]
- Planning [pdf 12kb]

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