Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)

Guidance manual for drinking water quality monitoring and assessment - A document by NEERI and NICD

In order to safeguard the health of the people, drinking water must meet quality standards. The main issues involved in drinking water safety are water quality management, surveillance and control mechanisms.

Levels of contaminants need to be ascertained through standard procedures. Each agency involved in water supply in India, has its own laboratory test practices and this manual details methods for all parameters adoptable by all laboratories.Read More

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Content Type: Courses, Data, Policies & Laws, Research
Category: Surveillance of Drinking Water Quality (SDWQ), Water Quality Monitoring, Water Quality Assessment, Water Testing, Drinking Water Contamination, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Drinking Water, Drinking Water Standards, Urban Water, Water Quality
Associated People / Organizations: Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Minstry of Urban Development, Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of Water Resources, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), US Environmental Protection Act (USEPA), World Health Organisation (WHO)
Author: National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD
Source: World Health Organisation (WHO)
Location / Time: 2009, India
Difficulty Level: Expert

Model building bye-laws, developed by the Town & Country Planning Organisation - Ministry of Urban Development (2004)

Building bye-laws are a set of standards used to regulate various facets of a building everything from its design to its safety features. In these 'Model Building Bye-Laws', the Town and Country Planning Organisation (TCPO) under the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) has created a guide for State Governments, Urban Local Bodies, Development Authorities to help them play a more effective role in enforcing the implementation of the master plans.Read More

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Model building bye-laws - Town and Country Planning Organisation - MoUD (2004)	1.05 MB

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Content Type: Policies & Laws
Category: Concrete Structures, Conservation, Disaster Mitigation, Discharge, Domestic Sewage, Drains, Effluent Disposal, Effluent Drains, Effluent Treatment, Energy Conservation, Flush Toilet, Latrines, Municipal Effluent, Municipal-Household Waste, Municipal Water, Municipal Water Supply, Power Supply, Renewable Energy, Resettlement and Rehabilitation (R&R), Safety, Safety Practices, Sanitation and Hygiene, Septic Tank, Septic Tanks, Sewage Disposal, Sewage Lines, Sewer Network, Sewers, Solar Water Heater, Solar Water Heaters, Urban Development, Urban Housing, Urban Local Bodies (ULB), Urban Planning, Urinals, Water Closet, Black Water, Building Bye-laws, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Construction, Construction Industry, Grey Water, Rainwater Harvesting, Sewage, Urban Water, Wastewater, Wastewater Recycling, Wastewater Treatment
Associated People / Organizations: Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)
Author: Town & Country Planning Organisation (Ministry of Urban Development)
Source: Ministry of Urban Development
Location / Time: 2004, India
Difficulty Level: Expert
Special Tags: Downloads, General

Indian Standard for Drinking Water as per BIS specifications (IS 10500-1991)

Arghyam has compiled a brief presentation which gives details of the permissible and desirable limits of various parameters in drinking water as per Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) standard specifications for potable water (BIS-10500-1991). The BIS drinking water specification (IS 10500:1991) was drawn up in 1983 and its most recent revision dates back to July 2010 (Amendment No. 3). Read More

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Drinking Water Standards IS 10500: 2004 by BIS	9.29 MB
Drinking Water Standards - IS 10500:1991 by BIS	99.14 KB
Indian Standard for Drinking Water as per BIS specifications (IS 10500-1991) - A presentation by Arghyam	159.77 KB
Drinking Water Quality Standards - A short write-up by BIS	22.64 KB
Tolerance and classification with respect to various water uses - A report by Central Water Commission (2010)	95.93 KB

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Content Type: Policies & Laws
Media Type: Presentations
Category: Chloride, Chromium, Colour, Copper, Fluoride, Lead, Manganese, Mercury, Odour, Sulphate, Zinc, Arsenic, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Contamination, Cyanide, Drinking Water, Drinking Water Standards, Faecal Coliforms, Hardness, Iron, Nitrate/Nitrite, pH, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), Water Quality, Water Quality Standards, Water Treatment Technology
Associated People / Organizations: Arghyam, Bureau of Indian Standards, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Central Water Commission, Ministry of Urban Development, State Governments
Author: Arghyam, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Central Water Commission
Source: 2010, Arghyam, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Central Water Commission, India, Industrial, Ministry of Urban Development
Location / Time: 1971, 1983, 1989, 1991, 2004, 2010, India, July
Difficulty Level: Beginner

ASHWAS - A people's survey of water and sanitation in Karnataka (2009)

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This report includes the findings of the ASHWAS survey (A Survey of Household Water and Sanitation), a participatory survey carried out by Arghyam, that included 28 districts of Karnataka covering more than 17,200 households across 172 gram panchayats (GPs). This was a peoples' survey, and the surveyors were selected from the respective communities that included students, women from self help groups, local NGO partners and other volunteers.

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Belgaum, KA, India
Latitude: 15.850360, Longitude: 74.504669

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Content Type: Data, Research
Category: ASHWAS, Central Rural Sanitation Program (CRSP), Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DDWS), Fluoride, Hygiene, Indira Awas Yojana (IAY), Jala Samvardhane Yojana Sangha (JSYS), National Family Health Survey (NFHS), Nirmal Gram Yojana (NGY), Nitrate, Sajal Gram Puraskar (SGP), Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana (SGRY), Swarna Jayanthi Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SJGSY), Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme (ARWSP), Bacteriological Contamination, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Drinking Water, Groundwater, Health, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), National Rural Water Supply Programme (NRWSP), Nirmal Gram Puraskar (NGP), Piped Water Supply, Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission (RGNDWM), Rural Water Supply, Sanitation, Wastewater, Water Quality
Associated People / Organizations: Arghyam
Author: Arghyam
Source: Arghyam
Location / Time: 2009, Bagalkot, Bangalore Rural, Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chamarajanagar, Chikballapur, Chikkamaglur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Haveri, India, Karnataka, Kodagu, Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Ramanagram, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
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Packaged / Bottled Water Industry - Presentations from the seminar organised by Confederation of Indian Industry at Bangalore (2009)

This book contains a series of presentations made at the Seminar on Packaged Water Industry in India, organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on 30th June 2Read More

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Content Type: Media, Policies & Laws, Research
Media Type: Presentations
Category: Bottled Water, Bottled Water Industry, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Drinking Water, Drinking Water Standards, Non-Biodegradable Waste, Plastics, Recyclable Waste, Solid Waste, Waste Disposal, Waste Processing, Water Markets, Water Purification, Water Quality, Water Quality Standards, Water Treatment Technology
Associated People / Organizations: Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology (CIPET) Mysore, Ion Exchange India (Pvt) Ltd, Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Pepsico India, Underwriters Laboratories
Author: AB Harapanahalli, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology (CIPET) Mysore, Ion Exchange India (Pvt) Ltd, Jeffrey B Smith, Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Pepsico India, Pratik Pota, Sania Akhtar, TNVV Rao, Underwriters Laboratories
Source: Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
Location / Time: 2009, India
Difficulty Level: Intermediate

Bureau of Indian Standards - Packaged Drinking Water

This presentation made at the Seminar on Packaged Water Industry in India, organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on 30th June 2009, gives details of the BRead More

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Content Type: Media, Policies & Laws
Media Type: Presentations
Category: Bottled Water, Bottled Water Industry, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Drinking Water
Associated People / Organizations: Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)
Author: Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)
Source: Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
Location / Time: 2009, India
Difficulty Level: Intermediate

Location, operation and maintenance of tube and borewells - Guidelines by the Bureau of Indian Standards (1994)

These guidelines by the Bureau of Indian Standards (1994) deal with the location, operation and maintenance of tube and borewells. Proper tubewell and borewell design, its construction and development considerably improves the long-term performance of the tubewell and reduces the chances of clogging of screen, sand content in water, contamination of water and other failures.

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Location, operation and maintenance of tube and borewells - Guidelines by the Bureau of Indian Standards (1994)	7.92 MB

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Content Type: Policies & Laws
Category: Aquifer Capacity, Aquifers, Borewells, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Drinking Water, Drinking Water Standards, Groundwater, Groundwater Assessment, Groundwater Management, Hand-pumps, Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission (RGNDWM), Rural Water Supply, Tubewells, Water Quality, Water Supply
Associated People / Organizations: Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission
Author: Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)
Source: Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)
Location / Time: 1994, India
Difficulty Level: Expert

Know about the water you consume - quality parameters, diseases and water treatment

This document by the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board describes the details about the water used for consumption in terms of :Read More

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Know Your Water-TWAD Board	77.53 KB

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Content Type: Research
Category: River Basins, Arsenic, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Chemical Pesticides, Contamination, Dams, Drinking Water, Fluoride, Groundwater, Groundwater Pollution, Hardness, Lakes, Open wells, pH, Reservoirs, Rivers, Soils, Surface Water, Traditional Water-bodies, Water-borne Diseases, Water Pollution, Water Quality, Water Quality Standards, Water Supply
Source: Tamilnadu Water Supply and Drainage Board
Location / Time: India
Difficulty Level: Expert

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Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)

Guidance manual for drinking water quality monitoring and assessment - A document by NEERI and NICD

Model building bye-laws, developed by the Town & Country Planning Organisation - Ministry of Urban Development (2004)

Indian Standard for Drinking Water as per BIS specifications (IS 10500-1991)

ASHWAS - A people's survey of water and sanitation in Karnataka (2009)

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Packaged / Bottled Water Industry - Presentations from the seminar organised by Confederation of Indian Industry at Bangalore (2009)

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Location, operation and maintenance of tube and borewells - Guidelines by the Bureau of Indian Standards (1994)

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