Drinking Water Quality Standard

Drinking Water Quality Standard Engineering Services Division, Ministry of Health Malaysia

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5000 MPN / 100 ml 5000 MPN / 100 m 1000 NTU 300 TCU 5.5 - 9.0 -

DRINKING WATER QUALITY STANDARDS Maximum Acceptable Value (mg/litre (unless otherwise stated)) 0 in 100 ml 0 in 100 m 5 NTU 15 TCU 6.5 - 9.0 0.2 - 5.0 Not Less Than 1.0 -

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1500 250 1.5 10 1.0 1.5 500 0.2 10

1000 250 1.5 10 0.3 0.4 - 0.6 500 0.2 0.1 -

RECOMMENDED RAW WATER QUALITY Parameter

Group Acceptable Value (mg/litre (unless otherwise stated))

Total Coliform E.coli Turbidity Color pH Free Residual Chlorine Combined Chlorine Temperature Clostridium perfringens (including spores) Coliform bacteria Colony count 22° Conductivity Enterococci Odour Taste Oxidisability Total Dissolved Solids Chloride Ammonia Nitrat Ferum/Iron Fluoride Hardness Aluminium Manganese Chemical Oxygen Demand

Anionic Detergent MBAS Biological Oxygen Demand Nitrite Total organic carbon (TOC) Mercury Cadmium Arsenic Cyanide Plumbum/Lead Chromium Cuprum/Copper Zinc Natrium/Sodium Sulphate Selenium Argentum Magnesium Mineral Oil Chloroform Bromoform Dibromoklorometana Bromodiklorometana Fenol/Phenol Antimony Nickel Dibromoacetonitrile Dichloroacetic acid Dichloroacetonitrile Trichloroacetic acid Trichloroacetonitrile Trihalomethanes - Total Aldrin / Dealdrin DDT Heptachlor & Heptachlor Epoxide Methoxychlor Lindane Chlordane Endosulfan

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1.0 6 0.001 0.003 0.01 0.07 0.05 0.05 1.0 3 200 250 0.01 0.05 150 0.3 0.002 0.00003 0.002 0.00003 0.02 0.002 0.0002 0.03

1.0 0.001 0.003 0.01 0.07 0.01 0.05 1.0 3 200 250 0.01 0.05 150 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.06 0.002 0.005 0.02 0.1 0.05 0.09 0.1 0.001 1.00 0.00003 0.002 0.00003 0.02 0.002 0.0002 0.03

Hexachlorobenzena 1,2-dichloroethane 2,4,5-T 2,4,6-trichlorophenol 2,4-D 2,4-DB 2,4-dichlorophenol Acrylamide Alachlor Aldicarb Benzene Carbofuran MCPA Pendimethalin Pentachlorophenol Permethrin Pesticides Pesticides - Total Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons Propanil Tetrachloroethene and Trichloroethene Vinyl chloride Gross alpha (α) Gross beta (β) Tritium Total indicative dose

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0.001 0.03 0.1Bq/l 1.0 Bq/l -

0.001 0.03 0.009 0.2 0.03 0.09 0.09 0.0005 0.02 0.01 0.01 0.007 0.002 0.02 0.009 0.02 0.02 0.005 0.1Bq/l 1.0 Bq/l -