Chemical hazards in drinking-water
The WHO Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality include facts sheets and comprehensive review documents for many individual chemicals. For many of these, guideline values are derived. All of these can be accessed through the following alphabetical list. Summary tables of guideline values are also available.
OTHER INFORMATION THAT MAY BE OF INTEREST:
Work in progress and drafts for the "Rolling revision" of the guidelines
Managing chemical hazards in drinking-water
Radiological hazards in drinking-water
D
A
B
C
- Cadmium
- Carbaryl
- Carbofuran
- Carbon Tetrachloride
- Chloralhydrate (trichloroacetaldehyde)
- Chlordane
- Chloride
- Chlorine
- Chlorite and Chlorate
- Chloroacetones
- Chlorophenols
- Chlorophenoxy herbicides
- Chloropicrin
- Chlorotoluron
- Chlorpyrifos
- Chromium
- Copper
- Cyanazine
- Cyanide
- Cyanobacterial toxins
- see Microcystin-LR
- Cyanogen chloride
- Cylindrospermopsin
D
E
- Edetic acid (EDTA)
- Endosulfan
- Endrin
- Epichlorohydrin
- Ethylbenzene
- Ethylene dibromide
- see 1,2-Dibromoethane
H
M
P
S
Recent WSH publications
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Fast facts
14 May 2013 -
Progress on sanitation and drinking-water
13 May 2013 -
Water quality and health strategy 2013-2020
26 January 2013 -
Water safety plan quality assurance tool
1 January 2013 -
WSP training package
16 November 2012