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Drinking water quality standards

Index Drinking water quality standards

Drinking water quality standards describes the quality parameters set for drinking water. [1]

47 relations: Acrylamide, Analytical quality control, Antimony, Arsenic, Benzene, Benzo(a)pyrene, Boron, Bromate, Cadmium, Chromium, Copper, Cyanide, Drinking water, Drinking Water Directive 1998, Elsevier, Epichlorohydrin, Escherichia coli, European Commission, Fluoride, Gram per litre, Ion, Lead, Mercury (element), Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Nickel, Nitrate, Nitrite, Nitrogen, Organoleptic, Parts-per notation, Pesticide, PH, Political Geography (journal), Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, Public health, Safe Drinking Water Act, Selenium, Statistics, Tetrachloroethylene, Trichloroethylene, Trihalomethane, Turbidity, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Vinyl chloride, Water pollution, World Health Organization, 1,2-Dichloroethane.

Acrylamide

Acrylamide (or acrylic amide) is a chemical compound with the chemical formula C3H5NO.

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Analytical quality control

Analytical quality control, commonly shortened to AQC refers to all those processes and procedures designed to ensure that the results of laboratory analysis are consistent, comparable, accurate and within specified limits of precision.

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Antimony

Antimony is a chemical element with symbol Sb (from stibium) and atomic number 51.

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Arsenic

Arsenic is a chemical element with symbol As and atomic number 33.

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Benzene

Benzene is an important organic chemical compound with the chemical formula C6H6.

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Benzo(a)pyrene

Benzopyrene is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and the result of incomplete combustion of organic matter at temperatures between and.

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Boron

Boron is a chemical element with symbol B and atomic number 5.

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Bromate

The bromate anion, BrO, is a bromine-based oxoanion.

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Cadmium

Cadmium is a chemical element with symbol Cd and atomic number 48.

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Chromium

Chromium is a chemical element with symbol Cr and atomic number 24.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.

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Cyanide

A cyanide is a chemical compound that contains the group C≡N.

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Drinking water

Drinking water, also known as potable water, is water that is safe to drink or to use for food preparation.

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Drinking Water Directive 1998

The Drinking Water Directive concerns the quality of water intended for human consumption and forms part of the regulation of Water supply and sanitation in the European Union.

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Elsevier

Elsevier is an information and analytics company and one of the world's major providers of scientific, technical, and medical information.

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Epichlorohydrin

Epichlorohydrin (abbreviated ECH) is an organochlorine compound and an epoxide.

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Escherichia coli

Escherichia coli (also known as E. coli) is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped, coliform bacterium of the genus Escherichia that is commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms (endotherms).

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European Commission

The European Commission (EC) is an institution of the European Union, responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the EU treaties and managing the day-to-day business of the EU.

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Fluoride

Fluoride.

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Gram per litre

A gram per litre or gram per liter (g/L or g/l) is a unit of measurement of mass concentration that shows how many grams of a certain substance are present in one litre of a usually liquid or gaseous mixture.

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Ion

An ion is an atom or molecule that has a non-zero net electrical charge (its total number of electrons is not equal to its total number of protons).

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

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Mercury (element)

Mercury is a chemical element with symbol Hg and atomic number 80.

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Ministry of Ecology and Environment

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment, formerly the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China (MEP), and prior to 2008 known as the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), is a department of the State Council of the People's Republic of China.

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Nickel

Nickel is a chemical element with symbol Ni and atomic number 28.

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Nitrate

Nitrate is a polyatomic ion with the molecular formula and a molecular mass of 62.0049 u.

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Nitrite

The nitrite ion, which has the chemical formula, is a symmetric anion with equal N–O bond lengths.

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Nitrogen

Nitrogen is a chemical element with symbol N and atomic number 7.

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Organoleptic

Organoleptic properties are the aspects of food, water or other substances that an individual experiences via the senses—including taste, sight, smell, and touch.

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Parts-per notation

In science and engineering, the parts-per notation is a set of pseudo-units to describe small values of miscellaneous dimensionless quantities, e.g. mole fraction or mass fraction.

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Pesticide

Pesticides are substances that are meant to control pests, including weeds.

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PH

In chemistry, pH is a logarithmic scale used to specify the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution.

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Political Geography (journal)

Political Geography is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier covering spatial dimensions of politics.

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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs, also polyaromatic hydrocarbons or polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons) are hydrocarbons—organic compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen—that are composed of multiple aromatic rings (organic rings in which the electrons are delocalized).

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Public health

Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting human health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals".

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Safe Drinking Water Act

The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) is the principal federal law in the United States intended to ensure safe drinking water for the public.

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Selenium

Selenium is a chemical element with symbol Se and atomic number 34.

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Statistics

Statistics is a branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data.

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Tetrachloroethylene

Tetrachloroethylene, also known under the systematic name tetrachloroethene, or perchloroethylene ("perc" or "PERC"), and many other names, is a chlorocarbon with the formula Cl2C.

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Trichloroethylene

The chemical compound trichloroethylene is a halocarbon commonly used as an industrial solvent.

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Trihalomethane

Trihalomethanes (THMs) are chemical compounds in which three of the four hydrogen atoms of methane (CH4) are replaced by halogen atoms.

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Turbidity

Turbidity is the cloudiness or haziness of a fluid caused by large numbers of individual particles that are generally invisible to the naked eye, similar to smoke in air.

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection.

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Vinyl chloride

Vinyl chloride is an organochloride with the formula H2C.

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Water pollution

Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies, usually as a result of human activities.

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World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO; French: Organisation mondiale de la santé) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health.

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1,2-Dichloroethane

The chemical compound 1,2-dichloroethane commonly known as ethylene dichloride (EDC), is a chlorinated hydrocarbon.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_water_quality_standards

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