watermark: the world-wide website for drinking water supply surveillance and monitoring in developing and transitional countries

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Welcome to the watermark website. This site is dedicated to the development of water supply surveillance and monitoring in low-income and transitional countries. The information available from this site contributes to the World Health Organization's Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality. You can enter the WHO site at any time by using the WHO symbol given on each page.

The development of the information included in the watermark site was supported by DFID (UK) under its Knowledge and Research programme. The watermark site is managed by the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) at Loughborough University in the UK.

New:
Water safety plans for Utilities in developing countries
    - a case study from Kampala

Health, insitutional, social and mapping programmes
    to support WSPs

Water Safety Plans (WSP) for Urban Piped Water Supplies
    in Developing Countries

Improved risk assessment and management in urban piped
water supply

Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment - Evaluation of WSPs

Water Quality Surveillance: A practical guide

Water Supply Surveillance: A reference manual

The site is currently divided into four main sections:

reference manual
The reference manual provides a detailed description of urban water surveillance. Advice on using the manual is also provided.
guides for implementation
Three guides based on experiences in Uganda are available.They contain information for managers, database users and field workers.
tools
This section contains a variety of data collection tools.
reports and case studies
The reports and case studies section provides summaries of the findings of particular surveillance programmes.

Visitors to the site are invited to submit comments about the manuals and how they could be improved. You are also invited to submit short case studies of your own for wider dissemination.

Much of the information from this site is available in portable document format (pdf). Select the following link to download the pdf reader from Adobe.

Contact: watermark
watermark
WEDC
The John Pickford Building
Loughborough University
Leicesterhire LE11 3TU UK

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