Guidelines for drinking-water quality, 2nd ed. - Volume 3: Surveillance and control of community supplies
Overview
The first edition of Guidelines for drinking-water quality, published in 1984-85, was widely used as a basis for setting national standards to ensure the safety of the water supply. It established guideline values ·for a large number of water constituents and contaminants, covering microbiological, biological, chemical, organoleptic, and radiological aspects. All the recommended guideline values in Volumes 1 and 2 of this new edition have been reviewed and, where necessary, updated in the light of new scientific information. In addition, many drinking-water contaminants not included in the first edition are evaluated.
Volume 3 describes the methods used in the surveillance of drinking-water quality in the light of the special problems of small-community supplies, particularly in developing countries, and outlines the strategies necessary to ensure that surveillance is effective. It is also concerned with the linkage between surveillance and remedial action and with the form that remedial action should take.
Access here the fourth edition of the Guidelines for drinking-water quality incorporating the first and second addenda