title: Revision of the WHO guidelines for drinking water quality.
abstract: This paper describes the activity of the World Health Organization in the field of drinking water quality, particularly the revision of the Guidelines for drinking water quality published in 1984. This process will be completed with the publication of new guidelines in 1993. The paper reports the physical, chemical and biological agents considered in the revision process, the procedure used to define the new guidelines, their meaning and their relationships with statutory limits.
authors.affiliation: International Programme on Chemical Safety, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Galal-Gorchev
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ozolins
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Bonnefoy
mesh_terms: D014871:Water Microbiology / Q000592:standards*; D014877:Water Pollution, Chemical; D014881:Water Supply / Q000592:standards*; D014944:World Health Organization