Resources

The following resources have been curated to help with planning for disasters, water supply and logistics planning

Drinking Water Guidelines, Rules and Regulations

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Drinking Water Standards for New Zealand

Drinking Water Standards set the Maximum Acceptable Values for a range of substances which can affect the safety and quality of drinking water. Based on guideline values set by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

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Aesthetic Values for Drinking Water - New Zealand

Drinking water not only needs to be safe, but it also needs to look, taste, and smell acceptable too.  

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Water Supplier Acceptable Solutions - New Zealand

Drinking water suppliers have options to meet their responsibility to provide the communities they serve with safe drinking water.

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Drinking Water Guidelines - Australia

The Australian Drinking Water Guidelines are non-mandatory standards, designed to Address both the health and aesthetic quality of supplying good quality drinking water.

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Guidelines for drinking-water quality, 4th edition - WHO

The fourth edition of the World Health Organization’s Guidelines for drinking-water quality builds on over 50 years of guidance by WHO on drinking-water quality.

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The Sphere Handbook: Humanitarian Response 2018

The Sphere Handbook is a globally recognised guide that outlines minimum humanitarian standards to ensure quality and accountability in disaster and conflict response. Page 114 outlines water and WASH guidelines.

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Emergency Preparedness Planning Resources

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Logistics preparedness Checklist - CARE

Adequate consideration of logistics issues during preparedness and contingency planning greatly assists the rapid mobilisation of logistics operations in response to an emergency.

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Emergency Planning Handbook - Australia

The handbook provides nationally agreed principles for good practice in emergency planning and draws on and complements current practices.

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Australian Emergency Management Library

One of the largest emergency management libraries in the Southern Hemisphere

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AusAID Humanitarian Logistics Framework

To facilitate timely, effective and flexible delivery of Australian humanitarian assistance through the provision of appropriate high quality humanitarian supply chain logistics support.

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Australian Red Cross Preparedness Resources

Red Cross developed resources to help people working in emergency planning and response

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The Sphere Handbook: Humanitarian Response 2018

The Sphere Handbook is a globally recognised guide that outlines minimum humanitarian standards to ensure quality and accountability in disaster and conflict response.

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