Boxes

• Chapter 2: Framework for Management of Drinking Water Quality

  • Box 2.1 - Application of the Framework in Western Australia

• Chapter 3: Framework for the Management of Drinking Water Quality – the twelve elements

  • Box 3.1 - Example of a drinking water quality policy

  • Box 3.2 - Examples of multiple barriers

  • Box 3.3 - Examples of outbreaks resulting from sub-optimal performance

  • Box 3.4 - Reliability of data

  • Box 3.5 - Water incident communication and notification protocol

  • Box 3.6 - Contractors

  • Box 3.7 - The Melbourne water quality study

  • Box 3.8 - Cyanotoxin investigation in South Australia

• Chapter 5: Microbial Quality of Drinking Water

  • Box 5.1 - Integrating health-based targets into the Framework for Managing Drinking Water Quality (Chapter 3)

  • Box 5.2 - Understanding and managing bore water security

  • Box 5.3 - Water Safety Continuum: achieving the health-based target

  • Box 5.4 - Small water suppliers

  • Box 5.5 - Environmental E. coli

  • Box 5.6 - Reservoirs and risk management: Understanding and managing reservoirs for control of pathogen risk (and LRVs)

  • Box 5.7 - Enteric Pathogen data

• Chapter 6: Physical and Chemical Quality of Drinking Water

  • Box 6.1 - The Black Mountain Declaration (2007) on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Australian Waters

• Chapter 8: Drinking Water Treatment Chemicals

  • Box 8.1 - Desirable components of a quality assurance system

  • Box 8.2 - Example specification for the supply and delivery of liquid alum to a water authority

  • Box 8.3 - Sample calculation for determining the lead recommended maximum impurity concentration in Alum

• Chapter 9: Overview of Monitoring

  • Box 9.1 - Monitoring priorities based on health risk

  • Box 9.2 - Contamination events

  • Box 9.3 - Importance of monitoring treatment performance

  • Box 9.4 - Critical control points

  • Box 9.5 - Target criteria and critical limits for filtration

  • Box 9.6 - Responding to customer complaints

  • Box 9.7 - Baseline monitoring of new drinking water sources

  • Box 9.8 - Investigative studies on the effect of floods on water quality

• Chapter 10: Monitoring for specific characteristics in drinking water

  • Box 10.1 - Priorities for attention where operational criteria are not met

  • Box 10.2 - Short-term evaluation of filtration performance

  • Box 10.3 - Example response protocol for E. coli detections

  • Box 10.4 - Example response protocol for Naegleria fowleri

  • Box 10.5- Example of the long-term evaluation of filter performance

  • Box 10.6 - Assessing system performance for management of Trihalomethanes (THMs)

• Appendices

  • Box A1.1 - Catchment management and source water protection

  • Box A3.1 - Overview of Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs)

  • Box A3.2 - Dose-response relationships