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Last Updated: Thursday, 02 January 2025 11:10

These are explanatory resources which you may wish to refer to help interpret your report:

• The Australian Drinking Water Guidelines > Go to 'Downloads' > open the first document in the list: 'Australian Drinking Water Guidelines (2011)'. This will take you to the latest version of the guidelines.
  
  • The Australian Drinking Water Quality Guidelines is Federal Government document.
  • Tables 10.5 and 10.6 (page 208) summarise the guideline values for microbial, chemical and physical and characteristics of water.
  • The guidelines are 'designed to provide an authoritative reference on what defines safe, good quality water...'
  • 'They are concerned both with safety from a health point of view and with aesthetic quality.'

• The Draft Livestock drinking water guidelines - November 2023
  
  • These guidelines are an Australian Government Initiative which is to be used as a guide only.
  • The Guidelines 'Provides guidance and default guideline values applicable to both groundwater and surface water quality provided for livestock drinking water commonly found in Australia and New Zealand...'
    
    
• Water for agriculture and irrigation - Department of Primary Industries NSW
  
  
• Safe water on rural properties - Queensland Health. This document provides information on treatment options for rainwater tanks.
  
  
• Guidelines for managing private drinking water supplies in commercial and community premises - Queensland Health. See PDF at end of the link's page.
  
  
• Water quality guidelines for public aquatic facilities - Queensland Health

If further information is required, please contact Laboratory Services on 07 4688 6270.