Australian drinking water guidelines, 1996 / National Health and Medical Research Council, Agriculture and Resource Management Council of Australia and New Zealand

Bib ID:
1416472
Format:
Book
Description:
  • [Canberra : National Health and Medical Research Council : Agriculture and Resource Management Council of Australia and New Zealand, 1996
  • 1 v. (loose-leaf) : ill. ; 32 cm.
ISBN:
0642244634
Series:
National water quality management strategy ; 6.
Full contents:
  • Part I. Overview
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Microbiological quality of drinking water
  • 3. Physical and chemical quality of drinking water
  • 4. Radiological quality of drinking water
  • 5. System management
  • 6. System performance
  • 7. Small water supplies
  • Summary of guidelines
  • Part II. Fact sheets
  • Micro-organisms
  • Bacteria
  • 1. Aeromonas
  • 2. Campylobacter
  • 3. Coliforms including thermotolerant coliforms
  • 4. Escherichia coli
  • 5. Klebsiella
  • 6. Legionella
  • 7. Mycobacterium
  • 9. Salmonella
  • 10. Shigella
  • 11. Vibrio
  • 12. Yersinia
  • Protozoa
  • 13. Acanthamoeba
  • 14. Cryptosporidium species
  • 15. Giardia
  • 16. Naegleria fowleri
  • Toxic algae
  • 17. Cyanobateria
  • Viruses
  • 18. Adenovirus
  • 19. Enteroviruses
  • 20. Hepatitis viruses
  • 21. Norwalk Virus
  • 22. Rotavirus, para-rotaviruses and reivorus (reoviridae)
  • Physical characteristics
  • 23. Dissolved oxygen
  • 24. Hardness
  • 25. pH
  • 26. Taste and odour
  • 27. Temperature
  • 28. Total dissolved solids
  • 29. True colour
  • 30. Turbidity
  • Radionuclides
  • 31. Radium-226 and radium-228
  • 32. Radon-222
  • 33. Uranium
  • 34. Other beta- and gamma-emitting radioisotopies
  • Inorganic chemicals
  • 35. Aluminium
  • 36. Ammonia
  • 37. Antimony
  • 38. Arsenic
  • 39. Absestos
  • 40. Barium
  • 41. Beryllium
  • 42. Boron
  • 43. Bromate
  • 44. Cadmium
  • 45. Chloride
  • 46. Chlorine
  • 47. Chlorine dioxide, chlorite, chlorate
  • 48. Chromium
  • 49. Copper
  • 50. Cyanide
  • 51. Fluoride
  • 52. Hydrogen sulfide, sulfide
  • 53. Iodine, iodide
  • 54. Iron
  • 55. Lead
  • 56. Manganese
  • 57. Mercury
  • 58. Molybdenum
  • 59. Monochloramine
  • 60. Nickel
  • 61. Nitrate and nitrite
  • 62. Selenium
  • 63. Silver
  • 64. Sodium
  • 65. Sulfate
  • 66. Tin
  • 67. Zinc
  • Organic disinfection by-products
  • 68. Chlorinated furanones: 3-chloro-4-(dichloromethyl)-5-hydroxy-2(5h)-furanone (MX)
  • 69. Chloroacetic acids: chloroacetic acid, dichloroacetic acid (DCA), trichloroacetic acid (TCA)
  • 70. Chloroketones: 1,1-dichloropropanone (dichloroacetone), 1,3-dichloropropanone, 1,1,1-trichloropropanone (trichloroacetone), 1,1,3-trichloropropanone
  • 71. Chlorophenols: 2-chlorophenol, 2,4-dichlorophenol, 2.4.6-trichlorophenol
  • 72. Chloropicrin
  • 73. Cyanogen chloride
  • 74. Formaldehyde
  • 75. Haloacetonitriles: dichloroecetonitrile, trichloroacetonitrile, dibromoacetonitrile, bromochloroacetonitrile
  • 76. Trichloroacetaldehyde (chloral hydrate)
  • 77. Trihalomethanes (THMs): trichloromethane (chloroform), bromodichloromethane, dibromochloromethane, tribromomethane (bromoform)
  • Other organic compounds
  • 78. Acrylamide
  • 79. Benzene
  • 80. Carbon tetrachlordie
  • 81. Chlorobenzene
  • 82. Dichlorobenzenes: 1,2-dichlorobenzene (1,2-DCB), 1,3-dichlorobenzene (1,3-DCB), 1,4-dichlorobenzene (1,4-DCB)
  • 83. Dichloroethanes: 1,1-dichloroethane, 1,2-dichloroethane
  • 84. Dichloroethenes: 1,1-dichloroethene (1,1-DCE), 1,2-dichloroethene (1,2,-DCE)
  • 85. Dichloromethane (methylene chloride)
  • 86. Epichlorohydrin
  • 87. Ethylbenzene
  • 88. Ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA)
  • 89. Hexachlorobutadiene
  • 90. Nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA)
  • 91. Organotins: dialkytins, tributyltin oxide
  • 92. Plasticisers: di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), di(2-ethylhexy) adipate (DEHA)
  • 93. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
  • 94. Styrene (vinylebenzene)
  • 95. Tetrachloroethene (also known as tetrachloroethylene or perchloroethylene)
  • 96. Toluene
  • 97. Trichlorobenzenes: 1,2,3-trichlorobenzene (1,2,3-TCB), 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene (1,2,4-TCB), 1,3,5-trichlorobenzene (1,3,5-TCB)
  • 98. 1,1,1-trichloroethane
  • 99. Trichloroethylene (TCE)
  • 100. Vinyl chloride
  • 101. Xylenes
  • Pesticides
  • 102. Aldrin and dieldrin
  • 103. Atrazine
  • 104. Chlordane
  • 105. 2,4-D
  • 106. DDT and its derivatives
  • 107. Heptachlor and heptachlor epoxide
  • 108. Lindane.
Notes:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Also available online via the World Wide Web.
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Commonwealth of Australia 1996
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