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WHO Guidelines for drinking-water quality

WHO produces international norms on water quality and human health in the form of guidelines that are used as the basis for regulation and standard setting, in developing and developed countries world-wide.

Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality, 3rd (current) edition, incorporating the first and second addenda

Index of background documents on chemical hazards in drinking-water

Rolling revision of the WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality

Policies and Procedures for updating Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality

Other information that may be of interest

Arsenic in drinking-water

Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality, 2nd & previous editions

Water for health:WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality (2010) [pdf 220kb]