Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality Management for New Zealand

Summary

The Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality Management for New Zealand complement the Drinking-water Standards for New Zealand 2005 (revised 2008). The Guidelines explain the development of the Standards and provide advice for achieving high level of water quality management. The Guidelines will help water suppliers to achieve the Standards.

Note: The Guidelines are updated on an ongoing basis. The date on the footer of each chapter or datasheet is an indication of when that section of the Guidelines was last updated. It is recommended that anyone using these Guidelines uses this web version and does not print the Guidelines, as chapters and datasheets may become out of date.

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• Chapter 1: Introduction (Word, 263 KB), (PDF, 788 KB)
• Chapter 2: Management of community supplies (Word, 101 KB), (PDF, 489 KB)
• Chapter 3: Water sources (Word, 535 KB), (PDF, 1.16 MB)
• Chapter 4: Selection of water source and treatment (Word, 380 KB), (PDF, 565 KB)
• Chapter 5: General microbiological quality (Word, 126 KB), (PDF, 528 KB)
• Chapter 6: Bacteriological compliance (Word, 982 KB), (PDF, 526 KB)
• Chapter 7: Virological compliance (Word, 69 KB), (PDF, 326 KB)
• Chapter 8: Protozoal compliance (Word, 164 KB), (PDF, 948 KB)
• Chapter 9: Cyanobacterial compliance (Word, 272 KB), (PDF, 728 KB)
• Chapter 10: Chemical compliance (Word, 269 KB), (PDF, 768 KB)
• Chapter 11: Radiological compliance (Word, 50 KB), (PDF, 272 KB)
• Chapter 12: Treatment processes, pretreatment (Word, 356 KB), (PDF, 1.03 MB)
• Chapter 13: Treatment processes, coagulation (Word, 392 KB), (PDF, 661 KB)
• Chapter 14: Treatment processes, filtration and adsorption (Word, 243 KB), (PDF, 719 KB)
• Chapter 15: Treatment processes, disinfection (Word, 281 KB), (PDF, 870 KB)
• Chapter 16: The distribution system (Word, 405 KB), (PDF, 1.14 MB)
• Chapter 17: Monitoring, water treatment and drinking-water (Word, 233 KB), (PDF, 633 KB)
• Chapter 18: Aesthetic considerations (Word, 65 KB), (PDF, 357 KB)
• Chapter 19: Small, individual and roof water supplies (Word, 932 KB), (PDF, 1.18 MB)

Micro-organisms, and chemical and physical deteminands datasheets

Datasheets for the Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality Management for New Zealand provide background information about each determinand including their sources, environmental forms and fates, typical concentrations either in New Zealand or overseas drinking-water supplies, processes for removing the determinand from drinking-water, analytical methods, health considerations, derivation of the maximum acceptable values (MAVs) for health significant determinands and guideline values for aesthetic determinands and references for further reading.

Datasheets for determinands of possible health and aesthetic significance are included for general information.

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• Datasheets index (Word, 707 KB)
• 1.1 Bacteria (Word, 387 KB)
• 1.2 Protozoa (Word, 383 KB)
• 1.3 Cyanobacteria (Word, 284 KB)
• 1.4 Viruses (Word, 301 KB)
• 1.5 Other: Helminths, nematodes, fungi etc. (Word, 275 KB)
• Appendix 2 Stats (Word, 371 KB)
• 2.1 Inorganic (Word, 794 KB)
• 2.2 Organics (Word, 1.6 MB)
• 2.3 Pesticides (Word, 2.4 MB)
• 2.4 Cyanotoxins (Word, 337 KB)
• 2.5 Aesthetics (Word, 424 KB)