Publications on water sanitation and health

Alphabetical order

• A practical guide to auditing water safety plans
  19 October 2015
• Acrylamide in drinking-water
  Background document for development of WHO guidelines for drinking-water quality
  23 October 2011
• Aluminium in drinking-water
  Background document for development of WHO guidelines for drinking-water quality
  23 October 2010
• Analysis of wastewater for use in agriculture
  A laboratory manual of parasitological and bacteriological techniques
  5 June 1996
• Animal waste, water quality and human health
  1 September 2012
• Animal waste, water quality and human health (Chapters)
  6 October 2012
• Antimicrobial resistance: An emerging water, sanitation and hygiene issue
  Briefing note
  6 November 2015
• Arsenic in drinking-water
  Background document for development of WHO guidelines for drinking-water quality
  23 October 2011
• Asbestos in drinking-water
  Background document for development of WHO guidelines for drinking-water quality
  23 October 2003
• Assessing microbial safety of drinking water:
  Improving approaches and methods
  22 February 2003
• Atrazine and its metabolites in drinking-water
  Background document for development of WHO guidelines for drinking-water quality
  25 October 2011
• Barium in drinking-water
  Background document for development of WHO guidelines for drinking-water quality
  23 October 2004
• Benzene in drinking-water
  Background document for development of WHO guidelines for drinking-water quality
  25 October 2003
• Better health care waste management
  An integral component of health investment
  15 June 2005
• Boil Water
  Technical brief
  1 January 2015
• Cadmium in drinking-water
  Background document for development of WHO guidelines for drinking-water quality
  23 October 2011
• Calcium and magnesium in drinking-water
  Public health significance
  30 March 2009
• Chemical mixtures in source water and drinking-water
  19 June 2017
• Chemical safety of drinking-water
  Assessing priorities for risk management
  3 December 2007
• Children in the new millennium:
  Environmental impact on health
  13 March 2003
• Chloride in drinking-water
  Background document for development of WHO guidelines for drinking-water quality
  23 October 2003
• Chlorine in drinking-water
  Background document for development of WHO guidelines for drinking-water quality
  23 October 2003
• Chromium in drinking-water
  Background document for development of WHO guidelines for drinking-water quality
  23 October 2003
• Cleaning and disinfecting wells
  Technical note 1 on drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene in emergencies
  1 July 2011
• Combating waterborne disease at the household level
  21 March 2007
• Combined household water treatment and indoor air pollution projects in urban Mambanda, Cameroon and rural Nyanza, Kenya
  14 April 2011
• Considerations for policy development and scaling-up household water treatment and safe storage with communicable disease prevention efforts
  18 April 2012
• Copper in drinking-water
  Background document for development of WHO guidelines for drinking-water quality
  23 October 2004
• Core questions on drinking-water and sanitation
  5 December 2006
• Correlations between remotely sensed data and malaria prevalence
  Rapid assessment, Menoreh Hills area of Central Java, Indonesia
  11 December 2002
• Cyanide in drinking-water
  Background document for development of WHO guidelines for drinking-water quality
  23 October 2003
• Dialogues on water for food and the environment
  Health as a cross-cutting issue
  10 December 2003
• Disposal of dead bodies in emergency conditions
  WHO/WEDC technical notes on WASH in emergencies
  29 March 2011
• Domestic water quantity, service level and health
  6 May 2003
• Economic and health effects of increasing coverage of low cost household drinking-water supply and sanitation interventions to countries off-track to meet MDG target 10
  Background document to the Human Development Report, 2006
  25 August 2007
• Emergency treatment of drinking-water at the point of use
  Technical note 5 on drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene in emergencies
  5 July 2013
• Emerging issues in water and infectious diseases
  10 October 2003
• Environmental health impact assessment of development projects
  A practical guide for the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
  10 February 2005
• Environmental health in emergencies and disasters:
  A practical guide
  26 September 2002
• Environmental management for vector control
  26 May 1988
• Essential environmental health standards in health care
  23 June 2008
• European standards for drinking-water, 2nd ed.
  10 May 2004
• Evaluating household water treatment options
  Heath-based targets and microbiological performance specifications
  7 July 2011
• Evaluation of the costs and benefits of water and sanitation improvements at the global level
  10 April 2004
• Evaluation of the H2S method for detection of fecal contamination of drinking-water
  13 April 2002
• Fact sheets on environmental sanitation
  4 January 2005
• Flowing away: water and health opportunities
  19 February 2008
• Fluoride in drinking-water
  2 November 2006
• Food, water and family health
  A manual for community educators
  13 March 2003
• GLAAS 2014 findings: Highlights for the Eastern Mediterranean Region
  23 November 2015
• GLAAS 2014 findings: Highlights for the European Region
  2 November 2015
• GLAAS 2014 findings: Highlights for the Region of the Americas
  8 March 2016
• GLAAS 2014 findings: Highlights for the South-East Asia Region
  28 December 2015
• GLAAS 2014 findings: Special Report for Africa
  19 May 2015
• Global costs and benefits of drinking-water supply and sanitation interventions to reach the MDG target and universal coverage
  6 May 2012
• Global costs of attaining the Millennium Development Goal for water supply and sanitation
  23 January 2008
• Global environmental threats to children related to water and sanitation
  8 October 2004
• Global patient safety challenge: Clean care is safer care
  Report on the informal briefing, 58th World Health Assembly
  27 July 2005
• Global status report on water safety plans
  A review of proactive risk assessment and risk management practices to ensure the safety of drinking-water
  7 June 2017
• Global water supply and sanitation assessment 2000 report
  6 June 2000
• Guide to hygiene and sanitation in aviation
  Third edition
  1 December 2009
• Guide to ship sanitation (third edition)
  Global reference on health requirements for ship construction and operation
  1 April 2011
• Guidelines for drinking-water quality - Volume 1: Recommendations
  Third edition, incorporating first and second addenda
  2 December 2013
• Guidelines for drinking-water quality, 1st ed., Vol.3: Drinking-water quality control in small-community supplies
  31 May 1985
• Guidelines for drinking-water quality, 2nd ed., Vol. 3: Surveillance and control of community supplies
  6 August 1997
• Guidelines for drinking-water quality, 2nd ed., Vol. 3: Surveillance and control of community supplies’
  9 June 1997
• Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality, 2nd edition
  19 March 2003
• Guidelines for drinking-water quality, fourth edition
  27 June 2011
• Guidelines for drinking-water quality, Second addendum to the 3rd edition
  Volume 1: Recommendations
  12 October 2008
• Guidelines for drinking-water quality, third edition
  21 September 2004
• Guidelines for drinking-water quality: First addendum to the fourth edition
  20 February 2017
• Guidelines for drinking-water quality: Fourth edition incorporating the first addendum
  15 February 2017
• Guidelines for drinking-water quality: Fourth edition incorporating the first addendum (chapters)
  24 April 2017
• Guidelines for safe recreational environments
  Addendum to volume 1 - List of agreed updates
  17 August 2009
• Guidelines for safe recreational water environments
  Volume 1: Coastal and fresh waters
  3 December 2003
• Guidelines for safe recreational water environments
  Volume 2 - Swimming pools and similar environments
  6 August 2015
• Guidelines for safe recreational water environments - Volume 2
  Swimming pools and similar environments
  6 August 2006
• Guidelines for the safe use of wastewater, excreta and greywater - Volume 1
  Policy and regulatory aspects
  4 December 2006
• Guidelines for the safe use of wastewater, excreta and greywater - Volume 2
  Wastewater use in agriculture
  4 December 2006
• Guidelines for the safe use of wastewater, excreta and greywater - Volume 3
  Wastewater and excreta use in aquaculture
  4 December 2006
• Guidelines for the safe use of wastewater, excreta and greywater - Volume 4
  Excreta and greywater use in agriculture
  4 December 2006
• Hazard characterization for pathogens in food and water: guidelines
  11 April 2003
• Health aspects of plumbing
  14 March 2006
• Health care facilities and waste related publications
  5 October 2015
• Health impact assessment
  Harmonization, mainstreaming and capacity building
  11 December 2001
• Health-based monitoring of recreational waters: the feasibility of a new approach ( the "Annapolis Protocol")
  Outcome of an expert consultation, Annapolis, USA
  11 May 1999
• Health-care waste management rapid assessment tool
  12 May 2011
• Healthy villages
  A guide for communities and community health
  3 December 2002
• Heterotrophic plate counts and drinking-water safety: The significance of HPCs for water quality and the human health
  Edited by J. Bartram, J. Cotruvo, M.Exner, C. Fricker, A. Glasmacher
  13 May 2003
• Household water treatment and safe storage following emergencies and disasters
  South Asia earthquake and tsunami
  18 April 2002
• How to integrate water, sanitation and hygiene into HIV programmes
  27 September 2010
• Improving nutrition outcomes with better water, sanitation and hygiene:
  Practical solutions for policy and programmes
  19 November 2015
• International Scheme to Evaluate Household Water Treatment Technologies
  Results of Round 1
  3 February 2016
• Intersectoral decision-making skills
  in support of health impact assessment of development projects
  12 December 2000
• Leakage management and control
  A best practice training manual
  3 December 2001
• Legionella and the prevention of legionellosis
  11 April 2007
• Linking poverty reduction and water management
  14 March 2006
• Looking back: Looking ahead
  Five decades of challenges and achievements in environmental sanitation and health
  9 October 2003
• Management of cyanobacteria in drinking-water supplies:
  Information for regulators and water suppliers
  30 January 2015
• Management of solid health-care waste at primary health-care centres
  A decision-making guide
  12 December 2005
• Management of waste from injection activities at district level
  1 September 2006
• Management of wastes from immunisation campaign activities
  Practical guidelines for planners and managers
  11 January 2004
• Managing water in the home
  Accelerated health gains from improved water supply
  2 December 2002
• Manual for economic assessment of drinking water interventions
  1 June 2012
• Meeting the MDG drinking-water and sanitation target
  A mid-term assessment of progress
  5 December 2004
• Meeting the MDG drinking-water and sanitation target
  The urban and rural challenge of the decade
  11 September 2006
• Mercury in health care
  22 May 2006
• Methods for detection of fecal contamination of drinking-water
  17 June 2003
• Microbiological agents in drinking-water
  Addendum to the second edition of the Guidelines for drinking water quality
  11 February 2002
• Monitoring bathing waters:
  A practical guide to the design and implementation of assessments and monitoring programmes
  11 February 2000
• National workshops on water resources development and health
  4 June 2003
• Natural ventilation for infection control in health-care settings
  WHO guidelines 2009
  27 October 2009
• Nutrients in drinking-water
  11 February 2005
• Occurrence of cyanobacterial toxins (microcystins) in surface waters of rural Bangladesh
  Pilot study
  23 March 2004
• Occurrence of of cyanobacterial toxins (microcystins) in surface water
  Rural Bangladesh: Pilot study
  12 December 2013
• Operation and maintenance of rural water supply and sanitation systems
  A training package for managers and planners
  5 December 2000
• Optimizing regulatory frameworks for safe and clean drinking-water
  Issue sheets
  4 August 2011
• Pathogenic mycobacteria in water
  A guide to public health consequences, monitoring and management
  11 February 2004
• PEEM Guidelines 2
  Guidelines for forecasting the vector-borne disease implications of water resources development
  22 July 2003
• Pharmaceuticals in drinking-water
  1 June 2012
• PHAST step-by-step guide
  A participatory approach for the control of diarrhoeal diseases
  3 December 1998
• Policies and procedures for updating the Guidelines for drinking-water quality
  31 July 2009
• Policy analysis: Management of health-care wastes
  12 May 2000
• Post-2015 monitoring of drinking-water and sanitation
  First consultation, 3-5 May 2011, Berlin, Germany: Meeting report
  5 May 2011
• Potential transmission of avian influenza (H5N1) through water and sewage
  Review of latest available evidence
  10 February 2006
• Preparation of national healthcare waste management plans in sub-Saharan countries
  Guidance manual
  11 April 2005
• Preventing diarrhoea through better water, sanitation and hygiene: exposures and impacts in low-and middle-income countries
  28 December 2014
• Preventing trachoma:
  A guide for environmental sanitation and improved hygiene
  20 August 2001
• Preventing travellers' diarrhoea: How to make drinking-water safe
  26 July 2005
• Progress on drinking water and sanitation
  Joint Monitoring Programme update 2014
  5 May 2014
• Progress on drinking water and sanitation:
  Joint Monitoring Programme update 2012
  6 March 2012
• Progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene
  Joint Monitoring Programme 2017 update and SDG baselines
  9 July 2017
• Progress on Drinking-water and Sanitation:
  Joint Monitoring Programme - Special focus on sanitation
  3 December 2008
• Progress on sanitation and drinking water
  2015 update and MDG assessment
  29 June 2015
• Progress on sanitation and drinking-water
  Joint Monitoring Programme update 2013
  13 May 2013
• Progress on sanitation and drinking-water:
  Joint Monitoring Programme 2010 update
  8 March 2010
• Protecting groundwater for health:
  Managing the quality of drinking-water sources
  26 May 2006
• Protecting surface water for health
  Identifying, assessing and managing drinking-water quality risks in surface-water catchments
  16 May 2016
• Publications on water, sanitation and health: 2000-2005
  2 January 2000
• Publications on water, sanitation and health: 2006
  2 January 2006
• Publications on water, sanitation and health: 2007
  2 January 2007
• Publications on water, sanitation and health: 2008
  2 January 2008
• Publications on water, sanitation and health: 2009
  2 January 2009
• Publications on water, sanitation and health: 2010
  3 January 2010
• Publications on water, sanitation and health: 2011
  2 January 2011
• Publications on water, sanitation and health: 2012
  2 January 2012
• Publications on water, sanitation and health: 2013
  2 January 2013
• Publications on water, sanitation and health: 2014
  2 January 2014
• Publications on water, sanitation and health: 2015
  2 January 2015
• Publications on water, sanitation and health: 2016
  31 October 2015
• Publications on water, sanitation and health: 2017
  28 December 2016
• Quantifying public health risks in the WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water quality
  By A.H. Havelaar, J.M. Melse
  9 August 2005
• Quantitative microbial risk assessment
  Application for water safety management
  Updated November 2016
  17 November 2016
• Rapid assessment of drinking-water quality
  A handbook for implementation
  1 October 2012
• Reducing and eliminating the use of persistent organic pesticides
  uidance on alternative strategies for sustainable pest and vector management
  10 February 2002
• Reduction of reliance on DDT in disease vector control
  Action plan
  11 May 2001
• Rehabilitating small-scale piped water distribution systems
  Technical note 4 on drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene in emergencies
  4 July 2011
• Rehabilitating water treatment works after an emergency
  Technical note 6 on drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene in emergencies
  6 July 2011
• Replacement of mercury thermometers and sphygmomanometers in health care
  Technical guidance. WHO 2011
  1 May 2011
• Review of latest available evidence on potential transmission of avian influenza (H5N1) through water and sewage and ways to reduce the risks to human health
  4 August 2006
• Risk assessment of Cryptosporidium in drinking water
  26 October 2009
• Risks to human health through potential transmission of avian influenza (H5N1) through water and sewage
  Review of latest available evidence
  29 March 2006
• Safe disposal of unwanted pharmaceuticals in and after emergencies
  Interagency guidelines
  5 December 1999
• Safe drinking-water from desalination
  Guidance on risk assessment and risk management procedures to ensure the safety of desalinated drinking-water
  1 March 2011
• Safe health-care waste management : Policy paper
  3 November 2004
• Safe management of shellfish and harvest waters
  Minimizing health risks from sewage-contaminated shellfish
  20 November 2010
• Safe management of wastes from health-care activities
  13 June 2014
• Safe management of wastes from health-care activities, 2nd ed.
  13 June 2014
• Safe piped water
  Managing microbial water quality in piped distribution systems
  7 December 2004
• Safe use of wastewater and excreta in agriculture and aquaculture
  Measures for public health protection
  10 December 1989
• Safer water, better health
  Costs, benefits and sustainability of interventions to protect and promote health
  25 June 2008
• Sanitation and hygiene promotion: programming guidance
  11 April 2005
• Sanitation challenge (archived)
  Turning commitment into reality
  10 December 2004
• Sanitation on ships: compendium of outbreaks of foodborne and waterborne disease and Legionnaires's disease associated with ships, 1970-2000
  26 October 2001
• Sanitation safety planning
  Manual for safe use and disposal of wastewater, greywater and excreta
  19 May 2015
• Scaling up household water treatment among low-income populations
  31 July 2009
• Small and safe
  Investing in small community water supplies will reduce waterborne disease outbreaks and overall costs
  30 March 2010
• Small-scale incinerators for health-care waste
  Findings on an assessment
  5 December 2004
• Solid waste management in emergencies
  WHO technical note 7 on drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene in emergencies
  7 July 2011
• Special report for the Sanitation and Water for All High-Level Meeting 2014
  Investing in water and sanitation: Increasing access, reducing inequalities
  4 April 2014
• Status of national household water treatment and safe storage policies in selected countries
  Results of global survey and policy readiness for scaling up
  18 April 2012
• Teacher's guide: management of wastes from health-care activities
  7 May 1998
• The drinking water response to the Indian Ocean tsunami including the role of household water treatment
  16 June 2005
• The resilience of water supply and sanitation in the face of climate change
  CD-ROM Vision 2030
  21 March 2010
• Think big, start small, scale up
  A road map to support country-level implementation of water safety plans
  3 June 2010
• Toolkit for monitoring and evaluating household water treatment and safe storage
  1 November 2012
• Toxic cyanobacteria in water
  A guide to their public health consequences, monitoring and management
  5 December 1999
• Tracking national financial flows into sanitation, hygiene and drinking-water
  GLAAS working paper
  1 July 2012
• UN-Water GLAAS Trackfin Initiative
  Guidance Document
  23 January 2015
• UN-Water GLAAS TrackFin Initiative
  Guidance document summary for decision-makers
  26 November 2015
• UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) 2012 Report
  The challenge of extending and sustaining services
  11 April 2012
• UN-water global analysis and assessment of sanitation and drinking-water (GLAAS) 2014 - report
  Investing in water and sanitation: increasing access, reducing inequalities
  17 November 2014
• UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) 2014 report
  Investing in water and sanitation: Increasing access, reducing inequalities
  23 February 2014
• UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) 2017 report
  Financing universal water, sanitation and hygiene under the Sustainable Development Goals
  13 April 2017
• UN-Water Global Annual Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) 2010 Report
  Targeting resources for better results
  20 April 2010
• UN-Water Global Annual Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS):
  2008 pilot report - Testing a new reporting approach
  6 October 2008
• Updated WHO/WEDC Technical Notes on WASH in Emergencies
  26 August 2013
• Upgrading water treatment plants
  27 May 2001
• Uranium in drinking-water
  Background document for development of WHO guidelines for drinking-water quality
  1 May 2012
• Using human waste safely for livelihoods, food production and health
  17 September 2008
• Using human waste safely for livelihoods, food production and health
  17 September 2008
• Valuing water, valuing livelihoods
  Guidance on social cost-benefit analysis of drinking-water interventions, with special reference to small community water supplies
  10 March 2011
• Valuing water, valuing livelihoods: Chapters
  16 November 2010
• Vision 2030: The resilience of water supply and sanitation in the face of climate change
  Summary and policy implications
  20 October 2009
• Water and sanitation for health facility improvement tool (WASH FIT)
  A practical guide for improving quality of care through water, sanitation and hygiene in health care facilities
  3 April 2017
• Water for Health
  WHO's Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality
  16 November 2004
• Water for health: Taking charge
  18 April 2001
• Water for life: Making it happen
  1 July 2005
• Water pollution control
  A guide to the use of water quality management principles
  10 February 1997
• Water quality and health - Review of turbidity
  Information for regulators and water suppliers
  15 February 2017
• Water quality and health strategy 2013-2020
  26 January 2013
• Water quality assessments
  Use of biota, sediments and water in environmental monitoring
  11 December 1996
• Water quality interventions to prevent diarrhoea: Cost and cost-effectiveness
  15 April 2008
• Water quality monitoring
  Guide to the design and implementation of freshwater quality studies
  11 December 1996
• Water quality: Guidelines, standards and health
  Assessment of risk and risk management for water-related infectious disease. WHO 2001
  17 June 2001
• Water recreation and disease
  Plausibility of associated infections: Acute effects, sequelae and mortality
  24 November 2005
• Water safety in buildings
  1 February 2011
• Water safety in distribution systems
  4 June 2014
• Water safety plan manual (WSP manual)
  Step-by-step risk management for drinking-water suppliers
  9 March 2009
• Water safety plan quality assurance tool
  3 August 2013
• Water safety planning for small community water supplies
  Step-by-step risk management guidance for drinking-water supplies in small communities
  1 July 2012
• Water safety plans
  Managing drinking-water quality for public health
  3 August 2010
• Water safety plans: Managing drinking-water quality from catchment to consumer
  17 August 2005
• Water sanitation and hygiene for accelerating and sustaining progress on neglected tropical diseases
  A global strategy 2015-2020
  27 August 2015
• Water treatment and pathogen control:
  Process efficiency in achieving safe drinking water
  18 January 2004
• Water watch 2015: Are countries in Asia on track to meet Target 10 of the MDGs
  8 May 2006
• Water, Sanitation and Health electronic library
  3rd edition
  24 November 2004
• Water, sanitation and hygiene in health care facilities
  Status in low- and middle-income countries and way forward
  17 March 2015
• Water, sanitation and hygiene standards for schools in low-cost settings
  WHO 2009
  27 October 2009
• Water, sanitation and hygiene to combat neglected tropical diseases
  Initial lessons from project implementation
  26 May 2017
• Waterborne zoonoses: identification, causes and control
  11 April 2004
• Waterborne zoonoses: identification, causes and control
  Edited by J.A. Cotruvo, A. Dufour, G. Rees, J. Bartram, R. Carr, D.O. Cliver, G.F. Craun, R. Fayer and V.P.J. Gannon
  6 July 2004
• WHO core principles for achieving safe and sustainable management of health-care waste: Policy paper
  18 October 2007
• World report on child injury prevention
  2 September 2008
• WSP training package
  CD-ROM
  16 November 2012

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