Arrangements for Setting Drinking Water Standards

CONTENTS

Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Contents, Abbreviations, Glossary

Overview
Key Messages, Overview

1 Introduction
1.1 Purpose
1.2 Terminology
1.3 Approach
1.4 Study scope
1.5 Report outline

2 The drinking water sector
2.1 Urban water cycle
2.2 Historical evolution of drinking water guidelines and standards
2.3 Current concerns
2.4 Treatment technologies
2.5 Economics of the industry and water quality regulation
2.6 In summary

3 Regulatory practices and institutions
3.1 Drinking water guidelines and standards
3.2 Linkages between standards and monitoring and response
3.3 Transparency, accountability and consultation
3.4 Incident plans and response protocols
3.5 Regulation review process
3.6 In summary

4 Setting parameter values
4.1 General approach
4.2 Risk assessment
4.3 Evaluating public health costs
4.4 Evaluation public health benefits
4.5 In summary

5 Monitoring and enforcement
5.1 Regulatory instruments
5.2 Enforcement agencies and procedures
5.3 Monitoring practice
5.4 Compliance record and enforcement costs
5.5 In summary

6 Systems management, cost recovery and risk communication
6.1 Quality management systems
6.2 Cost recovery
6.3 Risk communication
6.4 In summary

7 Overarching issues
7.1 Standard setting
7.2 Standards promulgation
7.3 Enforcement
7.4 Coordination with economic and other regulation
7.5 Implementing reform
7.6 In summary

A Participants

B Australian Drinking Water Guidelines

C Arrangements in Australia
C.1 New South Wales
C.2 Victoria
C.3 Queensland
C.4 Western Australia
C.5 South Australia
C.6 Tasmania
C.7 Northern Territory
C.8 Australian Capital Territory

D Overseas Arrangements
D.1 European Union
D.2 England and Wales
D.3 United States
D.4 Canada
D.5 New Zealand
D.6 France

E Legal responsibilities

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