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This document by the World Health Organisation is a guide for the onset of national efforts to assess, select and develop alternative strategies to Persistent Organic Pollutants (PO

This report by the World Health Organisation provides a structured approach to analysing hazards to groundwater quality, assessing the risk they may cause for a specific supply, setting priorities in addressing these

Fluoride is one of the very few chemicals that has been shown to cause significant effects in people through drinking-water. Fluoride has beneficial effects on teeth at low concentrations in drinking-water, but excessive exposure to fluoride in drinking-water, or in combination with exposure to fluoride from other sources, can give rise to a number of adverse effects.

The purpose of this document is to provide information on household water treatment using seeds of the Moringa oleifera tree. Solutions of Moringa seeds for water treatment may be prepared from seed kernels or from the solid residue left over after oil extraction (presscake).

This site provides information on the causes and symptoms of diarrhoea, the prevention and treatment of dehydration following acute diarrhoeal disease and the methods to be followed for rehydration.

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This document published by the World Health Organisation is divided into the following chapters:

1: Introduction
2: The Guidelines: a framework for safe drinking-water
3. Health-based targets

This document by the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board describes the details about the water used for consumption in terms of :

This document by the Central Pollution and Control Board (CPCB) highlights the types of polluting industries classified by the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Go

This document  was prepared by the Central Pollution Control Board in its report entitled 'Scheme for Zoning

This site by the World Health Organisation (WHO) provides access to water and sanitation related disease fact sheets, which provide information on the disease and how it affects people, the causes, distribution, scope of the problem and th