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WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality

The WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality provide an international risk-based framework and health-based guideline values used by jurisdictions when developing drinking-water standards.

Scope

The Guidelines organize drinking-water safety around preventive risk management, health-based targets and independent surveillance. This stub will be expanded only from WHO editions and jurisdictional primary sources.

References
  1. [1]Guidelines for drinking-water quality. World Health Organization, 2022. ↗