Drinking and other Domestic Uses

Fluoride is one of the very few chemicals that has been shown to cause significant effects in people through drinking-water. Fluoride has beneficial effects on teeth at low concentrations in drinking-water, but excessive exposure to fluoride in drinking-water, or in combination with exposure to fluoride from other sources, can give rise to a number of adverse effects.

This Whitman Direct Action water book examines the socio-political and technological obstacles to water development in India and has become a transparent resource for other NGOs, the government sector, academics, and interested individuals to glean the expertise of their contemporaries in the fields of water development and water purification technology.

This  report available on the Environmental Expert.com site highlights and discusses the practical and proven methods for the removal of arsenic from groundwater aquifiers and drinking water systems.

This 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

This document by the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board describes the details about the water used for consumption in terms of :

This 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:

This background paper by WaterAid highlights the challenges involved in achieving clean drinking water supply in rural India.

Water contamination due to arsenic

"Piped dreams". is a report by Lalitha Sridhar, written in November 2003, that examines the issue of quality of drinking water supplied to Indian homes today, and concludes that water quality must become a very serious concern for our public agencies, in order to solve the impending water crisis.

This 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