Guidelines for drinking-water quality. Volume 1 - BVSDE

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Acronyms and abbreviations used in the text ADI FAO IARC ICRP ILO IPCS IQ ISO JECFA JMPR LOAEL NOAEL NTU PMTDI PTWI TCU TDI UNEP WHO acceptable daily intake Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations International Agency for Research on Cancer International Commission on Radiological Protection International Labour Organisation International Programme on Chemical Safety intelligence quotient International Organization for Standardization Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues lowest-observed-adverse-effect level no-observed-adverse-effect level nephelometric turbidity unit provisional maximum tolerable daily intake provisional tolerable weekly intake true colour unit tolerable daily intake United Nations Environment Programme World Health Organization.
1. Introduction This volume of the Guidelines for drinking-water quality explains how guideline values for drinking-water contaminants are to be used, defines the criteria used to select the various chemical, physical, microbiological, and radiological contaminants included in the report, describes the approaches used in deriving guideline values, and presents brief summary statements either supporting the guideline values recommended or explaining why no healthbased guideline value is required at the present time. This edition of the guidelines considers many drinking-water contaminants not included in the first edition. It also contains revised guideline values for many of the contaminants included in the first edition, which have been changed as a result of new scientific information. The guideline values given here supersede those in the 1984 edition. Although the number of chemical contaminants for which guideline values are recommended is greater than in the first edition, it is unlikely that all of these chemical contaminants will occur in all water supplies or even in all countries. Care should therefore be taken in selecting substances for which national standards will be developed. A number of factors should be considered, including the geology of the region and the types of human activities that take place there. For example, if a particular pesticide is not used in the region, it is unlikely to occur in the drinking-water. In other cases, such as the disinfection by-products, it may not be necessary to set standards for all of the substances for which guideline values have been proposed. If chlorination is practised, the trihalomethanes, of which chloroform is the major component, are likely to be the main disinfection by-products, together with the chlorinated acetic acids in some instances. In many cases, control of chloroform levels and, where appropriate, trichloroacetic acid will also provide an adequate measure of control over other chlorination by-products. In developing national standards, care should also be taken to ensure that scarce resources are not unnecessarily diverted to the development of standards and the monitoring of substances of relatively minor importance. Several of the inorganic elements for which guideline values have been recommended are recognized to be essential elements in human nutrition. No attempt has been made here to define a minimum desirable concentration of such substances in drinking-water. 1.1 General considerations The primary aim of the Guidelines for drinking-water quality is the protection of public health. The guidelines are intended to be used as a basis for the development of national standards that, if properly implemented, will ensure the safety of drinking-water supplies through the elimination, or reduction to a minimum concentration, of constituents of water that are known to be hazardous to health. It must be emphasized that the guideline values recommended are not mandatory limits. In order to define such limits, it is necessary to consider the guideline values in the context of local or national environmental, social, economic, and cultural conditions. The main reason for not promoting the adoption of international standards for drinking-water quality is the advantage provided by the use of a risk-benefit approach (qualitative or quantitative) to the establishment of national standards and regulations. This approach should lead to standards and regulations that can be readily implemented and enforced. For example, the adoption of drinking-water standards that are too stringent could limit the availability of water supplies that meet those standards - a significant consideration in regions of water shortage. The standards that individual countries will develop can thus be influenced by national priorities and economic factors. However, considerations of policy and convenience must never be allowed to endanger public health, and the implementation of standards and regulations will require suitable
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Page 3 and 4: Preface In 1984 and 1985, the World
Page 5: Acknowledgements The work of the fo
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Page 35 and 36: Aluminium Aluminium is a widespread
Page 37 and 38: Asbestos Asbestos is introduced int
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followed in this study, which invol
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Miscellaneous organic constituents
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Although ECH is a genotoxic carcino
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The database on the toxicity of the
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JMPR evaluated bentazone in 1991 an
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programmes far outweigh any health
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mathematical risk extrapolation. Th
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to drinking-water results in a guid
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other mammalian species. PCP has be
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used in many countries, relatively
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acid (provisional guideline values
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Chlorate In addition to being a dec
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naturally occurring organic materia
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Monochloroacetic acid Concentration
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Dichloroacetonitrile For dichloroac
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chloroform, iron, manganese and hyd
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the limit.” However, because only
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Selecting suitable analytical metho
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committed effective dose is a measu
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Table 9. Examples of the doses aris
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and assess doses from all radon sou
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aluminium in drinking-water. Ammoni
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ange 6.5-9.5. Extreme values of pH
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Chlorine The taste and odour thresh
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esidence periods of the order of 3-
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alumina facilities and household de
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pipe, and microbial growths (biofil
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lay down such a scale will always b
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Bibliography Chapter 2. Microbiolog
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contaminants. Geneva, World Health
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Annex 1. List of participants in pr
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National Institute of Public Health
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Poland M. Takeda, Director of Envir
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K.L. Bailey, Health Effects Assessm
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D. Kello, Project Officer for Toxic
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Members H. Abouzaid, Chief, Water Q
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Substances Division, Environmental
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Members O. Hydes, Drinking-Water In
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Final Drafts Preparation Meeting fo
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B. Mintz, Chief, Exposure Assessmen
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Annex 2. Tables of guideline values
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B. Organic constituents Guideline v
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D. Disinfectants and disinfectant b
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Table A2.4. Radioactive constituent
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Announcing updated guideline values
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safety of drinking-water supplies i
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Back cover The first edition of Gui
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