Update of WHO air quality guidelines

Update of WHO air quality guidelines

Based on a systematic review of literature on adverse health effects of air pollution, the World Health Organization has updated its Air Quality Guidelines in 2005. The current update is intended to be relevant and applicable worldwide and takes into consideration large regional inequalities in exposures to air pollution. It recommends guideline levels for particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen di...

WHO guidelines for drinking-water quality.

WHO Air quality guidelines for particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide

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Towards establishing air quality guidelines for Pakistan.

While enforceable National Environmental Quality Standards for pollutants exist in Pakistan, ambient air quality guidelines have never been established. However, there is no reliable epidemiological/toxicological monitoring system in place in Pakistan to provide a basis for establishing guidelines for various air pollutants. This paper reviews the World Health Organization air quality guideline...

Revision of the WHO guidelines for drinking water quality.

This paper describes the activity of the World Health Organization in the field of drinking water quality, particularly the revision of the Guidelines for drinking water quality published in 1984. This process will be completed with the publication of new guidelines in 1993. The paper reports the physical, chemical and biological agents considered in the revision process, the procedure used to ...