PRIORITY business intelligence

WHO (World Health Organization) has produced international norms on water quality and human health in the form of guidelines that are used as the basis for regulation and standard setting, in developing and developed countries world-wide. One of them is the Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality. The third edition of the Guidelines has been comprehensively updated to take account of developments in risk assessment and risk management since the second edition. It describes a "Framework for Drinking-water Safety" and discusses the roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders, including the complementary roles of national regulators, suppliers, communities and independent "surveillance" agencies.