Water quality guidelines organics

United States and Canada have water quality guidelines and European countries banned the use of alkylphenol polyethoxylates. To date, there is no standard available for regulating APs in the environmental media of South Korea. Most of the sites investigated throughout the South Korean peninsula are not expected to be sufficiently contaminated with APs or BPA to cause adverse effects. However, NP concentrations in some waters and sediments were over the guidelines of the USA and Canada. This means that aquatic organisms can be adversely affected by NP exposure in some aquatic systems. Therefore, actions should be taken to implement the regulations of NP to protect the aquatic ecosystems in South Korea. 

The World Health Organization develops drinking water quality guidelines that can be used in developing and developed countries worldwide. 

The World Health Organization (WHO) established a drinking water quality guideline of 0.03 mgl in 1993 which is currently under review. 

International Organization for Standardization (ISO) (1999a) Water Quality - Guidelines for Algal Growth Inhibition Tests with Poorly Soluble Materials, Volatile Compounds, Metals and Waste Water, ISO 14442. ISO, Paris. 

World Health Organization. Drinking Water Quality Guidelines for Selected Herbicides, WHO, Copenhagen, 1987. 

WHO (World Health Organization) (1987). Drinking-Water Quality Guidelines for Selected Herbicides. Environmental Health Series, 27, WHO, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen. 

Broadrihh, M., 2008. 3 Years on from Texas City. 4th Global Congress on Process Safety. In FewtreU, L., Bartram, J. (eds). Water quality guidelines, standards and health. International Water Association (IWA), World Health Organization, London, UK. FewtreU, L., Bartram, J. (eds), 2001. Water quality guidelines, standards and health. 

Fewtrell, L., Bartram, J. (eds), 2001. Water Quality Guidelines, Standards and Health. London IWA World Health Organization. 

De Zuane, J. 1997. Handbook of Drinking Water Quality, 2nd ed. New York Van Nostrand Reinhold. Describes U.S. and WHO (World Health Organization) water quality guidelines. 

WHO (2004) Dialkyltins in drinking water. Background document for the development of WHO Guidelines for drinking-water quality. Geneva, World Health Organization (WHO/SDEA/VSH/ 03.04/109 http //vwvw.vvho.int/water sanitation health/dwq/ chemicals/dialkyltins.pdf). 

WHO. 1984. Guidelines for drinking water quality. Volume 1. Recommendations. Geneva, Switzerland World Health Organization. 

World Health Organization, Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality, Vol. 1, Geneva, (1984). 

In addition to gasoline, CFC, and so on, various other organic and inorganic compounds such as heavy metals, sulfides, and cyanides on the USEPA Priority Pollutants List, and subject to various water quality criteria, guidelines, etc., when released can also contaminate the soil. The contaminated soil then becomes a hazardous solid waste which must be properly disposed of [63-86]. 

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