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Guidelines for drinking water quality - World Health Organisation (2008)
Posted on 21 May, 2009 11:14 AMThis document published by the World Health Organisation is divided into the following chapters:
1: Introduction
2: The Guidelines: a framework for safe drinking-water
3. Health-based targets
World Health Organisation provides fact sheets of water-related diseases, their causes and measures for prevention
Posted on 20 May, 2009 01:16 PMThis site by the World Health Organisation (WHO) provides access to water and sanitation related disease fact sheets, which provide information on the disease and how it affects people, the causes, distribution, scope of the problem and th
Selected papers on the social aspects of arsenic and arsenic mitigation in Bangladesh
Posted on 20 May, 2009 12:31 PMThis document published by the Arsenic Policy Support Unit of the Government of Bangladesh on the social aspects of arsenic and arsenic mitigation consists of three chapters:
Water contamination due to arsenic and nitrates and their health implications - research studies
Posted on 20 May, 2009 11:10 AMWater contamination due to arsenic
Towards a more effective operational response - arsenic contamination of groundwater in south and east asian countries: a policy report by World Bank
Posted on 20 May, 2009 10:16 AMThis policy report on arsenic contamination of groundwater resources by the World Bank presents the findings of a study undertaken by the World Bank in 2005, t
Arsenic contamination in groundwater- an article by wikipedia
Posted on 19 May, 2009 12:23 PMThis article on wikipedia provides the details of the phenomenon of arsenic contamination of groundwater and provides information on the following lines:
A presentation on surface water quality parameters
Posted on 19 May, 2009 12:06 PMAn interesting presentation explaining the main parameters of water quality from surface sources.
The contents include:
H2S paper strip test for drinking water quality in the Pacific islands - a paper by SOPAC
Posted on 19 May, 2009 11:49 AMThis paper by SOPAC provides detailed information on scientific basis, manufacture and use of H2S paper strip test for drinking water quality, in the context of Pacific Islands, and gives suggestions on how the test can be uti
Arsenic primer - guidance for UNICEF country offices on the investigation and mitigation of arsenic contamination
Posted on 19 May, 2009 11:42 AMThis manual by the UNICEF contains a synthesis of the knowledge UNICEF and its partners have gained over the last ten years in arsenic mitigation programmes in Asia, including information on the occurrence and effect