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Your tap water should be clear and bright - water quality advice, reporting problems, how to complain
How to register as a producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market bottled drinking water.
Rules for local authorities to follow when registering a premises to produce bottled drinking water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
The differences between the 3 types of bottled water, and what bottled water is exempt from the rules.
Information on the potential health impacts of drought in England and the measures that people can take to stay healthy during these events.
External quality assessment (EQA) scheme suitable for laboratories that routinely monitor drinking water, examining for low levels of indicator organisms.
Report on the quality of all individual supplies of drinking water that exceed 1,000 cubic meters a day or serve more than 5,000 people in England.
This study examines the impact of inadequate water and sanitation on diarrhoeal disease in low- and middle-income settings
Rules that local authorities in England must follow when registering a premises to produce spring water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
Journal article and policy brief which test this theory in coastal Kenya
This external quality assessment (EQA) scheme is for laboratories that routinely monitor drinking water for low levels of indicator organisms.
External quality assessment (EQA) of water microbiology.
This external quality assessment (EQA) scheme is for laboratories that routinely monitor drinking water, examining for low levels of indicator organisms.
What local authorities must do to grant recognition for natural mineral water and carry out ongoing checks.
This section describes the mechanisms protecting the quality or quantity of water used for drinking water supplies.
An Analysis of Global Progress on Community- and Household-Level Access to Safe Water and Sanitation
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