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Some important notes ...

This online tool helps you navigate the framework for deriving guidelines for chemicals in drinking water proposed in the Australian Water Recycling Guidelines: Phase 2 (2008) .

Important: Please note that these tools are available to help you use the framework for deriving guidelines described in the Australian Water Recycling Guidelines: Phase 2 (2008). Before using these tools for the first time, you should first read and understand the advantages and limitations of the framework discussed in the Australian Water Recycling Guidelines: Phase 2 (2008).

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Other online resources that you may be interested in (please note that these links change quite often - if one does not work, please send me an email and I will attempt to find the proper link and update these):

• EPHC Australian Water Recycling Guidelines: Phase 2 (2008), available online at http://www.ephc.gov.au/taxonomy/term/39/
• NWC Recycled Water Quality: A guide to determining, monitoring and achieving safe concentrations of chemicals in recycled water (2008), available online athttp://www.ephc.gov.au/taxonomy/term/39/
• NHMRC Australian Drinking Water Guidelines (2011), available online at http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/guidelines/publications/eh52

Getting started ...

The framework is reproduced below (with minor modifications). If you would like to navigate through the framework one step at a time, click on 1. Identify chemical of interest. Otherwise if you already know which step is relevant to your chemical you can also click on any of the steps below to go directly to that page.