Australian Drinking Water Guidelines

Australian Drinking Water Guidelines

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Australian Drinking Water Guidelines
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Table of updates
Contents
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Boxes
Introduction
- Chapter 1: Introduction
  1.1 Guiding principles
  1.2 About the Guidelines
  1.2.1 Scope of the Guidelines
  1.2.2 Purpose of the Guidelines
  1.2.3 Structure of the Guidelines
  1.3 Water quality characteristics
  1.3.1 Introduction
  1.3.2 Health-based targets
  1.3.3 Microbial health-based targets
  1.3.4 Physical and chemical guideline values
  1.3.5 Radiological screening and reference values
  1.4 Community consultation
  1.5 Development of the Guidelines
  1.5.1 Acknowledgments
  1.6 Future revisions of the Guidelines
  1.7 References
Part 1: Management of Drinking Water Quality
Part 2: Description of Water Quality
Part 3: Monitoring
- Chapter 9: Overview of monitoring (Revised 2021)
  9.1 Introduction
  9.2 Monitoring overview
  9.2.1 Monitoring priorities
  9.2.2 Principles of monitoring frequency
  9.2.3 Catchment-to-consumer monitoring
  9.3 Developing a monitoring program
  9.4 Operational monitoring
  9.4.1 Operational characteristics
  9.4.2 Target criteria
  9.4.3 Critical limits at critical control points
  9.4.4 Corrective action
  9.4.5 Operational monitoring frequency
  9.4.6 Chlorination as a critical control point: an example
  9.5 Verification of drinking water quality
  9.5.1 Monitoring consumer satisfaction
  9.5.2 Drinking water quality monitoring
  9.6 Water quality issues beyond the point of supply
  9.7 Investigative studies and research monitoring
  9.8 Validation of barrier performance
  9.9 Incident and emergency response monitoring
  9.10 Reliability of monitoring data
  9.10.1 Sample integrity
  9.10.2 Methods
  9.10.3 Detection limits
  9.10.4 Measurement uncertainty
  9.10.5 Field testing
  9.11 Monitoring advice for small, remote or community-managed water supplies
  9.12 Assessing the significance of short-term exceedances of health-based guideline values
  9.13 References
- Chapter 10: Monitoring for speciﬁc characteristics in drinking water (Updated 2022)
  10.1 Introduction
  10.2 Assessing safety: short-term evaluation of monitoring
  10.2.1 Short-term evaluation of operational monitoring
  10.2.2 Short-term evaluation of drinking water quality monitoring
  10.3 Assessing performance: long-term evaluation of monitoring
  10.3.1 Long-term evaluation of microbial performance
  10.3.2 Long-term evaluation of health-based chemical performance
  10.3.3 Long-term evaluation of aesthetic performance
  10.3.4 Long-term evaluation of consumer satisfaction
  10.3.5 Improvement plan
  10.3.6 Performance reporting
  10.3.7 Summary of guideline values for microbial, chemical and physical characteristics
  10.3.8 Summary of reference levels and screening values for radiological characteristics
  10.4 Reference
Part 4: Information sheets
Part 5: Fact sheets
Appendices
Glossary

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