Info Links - Water Quality

1) On-line collection of information on protecting drinking water sources put together by the Canadian Environmental Law Association. http://www.cela.ca/coreprograms/detail.shtml?x=1437

2) The Summary Table of the Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality has been updated and is now available on Health Canada's website.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/water-eau/doc_sup-appui/sum_guide-res_recom/index_e.html. The most recent Summary (March, 2007) supercedes all previous versions, including that contained in the published booklet.

3) The Federal-Provincial-Territorial Committee on Drinking Water and the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Committee on Health and the Environment have approved four new drinking water guidelines for Bacteriological Quality:

Escherichia coli
http://hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/water-eau/doc_sup-appui/escherichia_coli/index_e.html

Total Coliforms
http://hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/water-eau/doc_sup-appui/coliforms-coliformes/index_e.html

Heterotrophic Plate Count
http://hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/water-eau/doc_sup-appui/heterotrophic-heterotrophes/index_e.html

Bacterial Waterborne Pathogens - Current and Emerging Organisms of Concern
http://hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/water-eau/doc_sup-appui/pathogens-pathogenes/index_e.html

4) The Federal-Provincial-Territorial Committee on Drinking Water and the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Committee on Health and the Environment have approved the new drinking water guidelines for trihalomethanes: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/water-eau/doc_sup-appui/trihalomethanes/index_e.html

5) The new Guideline Technical Document for arsenic in drinking water, approved by the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Committee on Drinking Water and the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Committee on Health and the Environment, is now available on Health Canada's web site:
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/water-eau/doc_sup-appui/arsenic/index_e.html

The “It's Your Health” document has also been updated and posted at the
following address: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/iyh-vsv/environ/arsenic_e.html

6) Update 7.0 to the Canadian Environmental Quality Guidelines is now available. This update includes a revised CD ROM, five new soil and water quality guidelines, the Sediment Quality Index, the Soil Quality Index as well as revised summary tables for Chapter 4 and Chapter 7. For details: http://www.ccme.ca/publications/pubs_updates.html

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