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Catalogue Entry: Guidelines for Canadian drinking water quality: Iron
Guideline Technical Document for Public Consultation Consultation period ends November 28, 2023. Purpose of consultation: This guideline technical document evaluated the...-
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Catalogue Entry: Water Talk - Drinking Water Quality in Canada
Responsibility for the quality of drinking water is shared by all levels of government. The federal government plays a key role in the area of drinking water by, among other...-
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Catalogue Entry: Water quality and health videos
Water quality affects everyone. Find out more about water pollution and your health. What the flood? Recreational water safety.-
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Catalogue Entry: Guidelines for Canadian Recreational Water Quality Guideline Technical...
The Guidelines for Canadian Recreational Water Quality comprise multiple guideline technical documents that consider the various factors that could interfere with the safety of...-
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Catalogue Entry: Guidelines for Canadian recreational water quality technical document -...
The Guidelines for Canadian Recreational Water Quality consist of multiple guideline technical documents that consider the various factors that could interfere with the safety...-
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Catalogue Entry: Recreational water quality and health: Cyanobacteria and their toxins
Cyanobacteria are also known as blue-green algae. They're a type of bacteria that occur naturally in fresh and marine bodies of water. There are many types of cyanobacteria, and...-
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Catalogue Entry: Recreational water quality and health: Hazards
Pathogenic microorganisms are extremely small organisms that may cause disease, and include:bacteria, viruses, parasites. Many different kinds can be present in the water and...-
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Catalogue Entry: Recreational water quality and health: Managing risk
Understanding hazardsIt's important to understand the potential hazards in recreational water areas. Authorities can help protect people from these hazards with: water quality...-
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Catalogue Entry: Recreational water quality and health: Protecting your health
Before your visit, Check for up-to-date water quality monitoring results and swimming advisories on local health department or municipal websites. Pack protective gear such as:...-
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Catalogue Entry: Recreational water quality and health: Overview
Recreational water areas are any natural fresh, marine or estuarine (somewhat salty) bodies of water used for recreational purposes, such as: lakes, rivers, oceans human-made...-
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Catalogue Entry: Species sensitivity distributions for water quality guidelines and...
Canadian ecosystems support significant biodiversity, with approximately 80,000 plant and animal species known to exist in Canada and potentially more yet to be discovered. Some...-
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Catalogue Entry: Guidance document for consultation: Recreational water quality: Physical,...
This guideline technical document evaluated the available information on physical, chemical and aesthetic characteristics of recreational waters with the intent of recommending...-
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Catalogue Entry: Guidelines for Canadian drinking water quality boron: Overview
This guideline technical document was prepared in collaboration with the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Committee on Drinking Water and assesses all available information on...-
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Catalogue Entry: Guidelines for Canadian drinking water quality boron: Exposure considerations
The average total daily boron intake from environmental media, food and drinking water for the general Canadian population ranges from 3 to 92 μg/kg body weight (bw) per day,...-
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Catalogue Entry: Guidelines for Canadian drinking water quality boron: Health considerations...
covers the literature up to 2012. The present assessment considers the previous data, as well as material published after this period from 2012 to 2018. Health Canada has also...-
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Catalogue Entry: Guidelines for Canadian drinking water quality boron: International considerations
The World Health Organization (WHO), U.S. EPA, Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council and the European Commission have developed guidelines or advisory values...-
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Catalogue Entry: Guidelines for Canadian drinking water quality boron: Monitoring
Source water characterization should be part of routine system assessments. Boron is not widely distributed in source water in Canada and tends to be present at elevated...-
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Catalogue Entry: Guidelines for Canadian drinking water quality boron: Analytical and...
Analytical methods to detect boron. Standardized methods available for the analysis of total boron in drinking water and their respective MDLs are summarized in Table 3. MDLs...-
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Catalogue Entry: Guidelines for Canadian drinking water quality boron: Appendix A, Canadian...
Table A-1. Total boron concentrations for select river basins across Canada, taken from Environment and Climate Change Canada's long-term monitoring data (2000-2015)-
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Catalogue Entry: Guidelines for Canadian drinking water quality – Malathion: Overview
This guideline technical document was prepared in collaboration with the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Committee on Drinking Water and is based on assessments of malathion...-
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