Wastewater generated by 75% of the population is treated by various methods15. Drinking water supply for 80% of the population is organised through public service.

Additional mechanism for achieving the objectives in this field will be the drawing-up of eco-technological standards and criteria for introducing appropriate technologies for wastewater treatment, waste sludge management and drinking water supply, as well as the formulation of criteria for finding locations for relevant facilities.

(4) Irrespective of its legal status set out in the preceding paragraph, in awarding legal operations to third parties that fulfil the assumptions of public procurement (such as subsidised works), and in orders in the water, energy, transport and postal sectors (client in the area of drinking water supply, removing and treating municipal wastewater and rainwater and so forth), the public-private partnership contractor must act in compliance with the Public Procurement Act and the Public Procurement in the Water, Energy, Transport and Postal Services Sectors Act.

Potable water tanks must have an opening or a manhole to enable the inside to be cleaned.

any washing or cleaning of live bivalve molluscs must be carried out using pressurized clean sea water or potable water;

Whereas it is necessary to protect public health and, to this end, to exercise surveillance over surface water intended for the abstraction of drinking water and over the purification treatment of such water;

Since the new applications for the product include drinking water and waste purification, and the customers in this case are not big industries but municipalities or public utilities, stability of supply is an important objective.

an appropriate and sufficient supply of potable water, complying with the parameters laid down in Annexes D and E to Directive 80/778/EEC ('), for use in milking and in cleaning the equipment and instruments referred to in Chapter III B of this Annex;

Potassium permanganate is a strong oxidising agent used for potable water treatment, for waste water treatment, in the manufacture of chemicals and pharmaceuticals, in aqua culture, in metal refining, for metal surface cleaning, as a disinfectant in agriculture and veterinary practices, for gas purification, process gas deodorisation, for bleaching and special treatments in the textile industry, in radioactive decontamination, in gas turbine cleaning and for submarine air purification.

exceeds, where the surface water in or from the area of envisaged use is intended for the abstraction of drinking water, the values fixed by

After having been cleaned and disinfected, pipes must be rinsed out with potable water;

Impact on water treatment procedures In cases where this information is necessary in the framework of a conditional authorization as meant in Annex VI, Part C, point 2.5.1.2 (b), the information provided should permit to establish or to estimate effectiveness of water treatment procedures (drinking water and sewage treatment), and impact on such procedures.

After cleaning and disinfection, the equipment and utensils for milking, treatment, storage and transport of milk must be rinsed with potable water.

measures to meet the requirements of Article 7, including measures to safeguard water quality in order to reduce the level of purification treatment required for the production of drinking water;

Member States shall ensure the necessary protection for the bodies of water identified with the aim of avoiding deterioration in their quality in order to reduce the level of purification treatment required in the production of drinking water.

The EU will seek to support Ukraine in its effort to reduce the negative impact on public health of the environmental situation in Ukraine - notably as regards the quality of drinking water, waste water treatment, waste collection and disposal as well as air pollution.

The general applications of PAC are: water treatment (potable process and waste water), gas and air purification, solvent recovery, decolourisation of sugar, vegetables oils and fats, deodorisation and purification of different products in the chemical (i.e. organic acids) or pharmaceutical (i.e. gastrointestinal capsule) or food industries (i.e. alcoholic and soft drinks).

The purpose of check monitoring is regularly to provide information on the organoleptic and microbiological quality of the water supplied for human consumption as well as information on the effectiveness of drinking-water treatment (particularly of disinfection) where it is used, in order to determine whether or not water intended for human consumption complies with the relevant parametric values laid down in this Directive.