Studying Iranian Drinking Water Quality Guidelines Compared to the Authentic World Standards

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Shervin Shahvi Post Doctroral Research Fellowship Faculty of Environemntal University of Tehran

2 Full professor/ Department of Environmental/ University of Tehran

Abstract

Referring the World health Organization definition, a safe drinking water should not threat the consumer health over the lifetime of consumption. The objective of the present study is to investigate the present guidelines in order to improve the Iran drinking water guidelines. To obtain this, the present drinking water guidelines in Iran (named 1053 and 1011 standards) and some well-known guideline (WHO,US EPA and the European Communities) were studied. The Iran guidelines were compared to the other ones and the different points and values were presented as Tables. It was understood that the present drinking water guidelines of Iran do not cover areas such as the water quality indicators based on their resources and lack some suggestions about in-network monitoring plans. It is recommended that Iran guidelines should be revised in two categories: 1. The primary standard including the pollutants threatening the consumers health and the Secondary standards which should be prepared by the local water authorities.
Keywords: Drinking water, drinking water standards, water quality indicators, World Health Organization, Iran drinking water standards

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Journal of Water and Wastewater Science and Engineering
Volume 2, Issue 2
July 2017
Pages 3-13

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  • Receive Date: 31 May 2017
  • Revise Date: 16 October 2017
  • Accept Date: 13 February 2018

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