Potable Water Testing in Seawater Desalination Plant

I received a request for help from a staff in a seawater desalination plant. As it was a private request, I will not paste its entire contents here. The short version of it is: he needs some good reference books to help him in his job of performing water quality testing in the plant.

To answer your questions, I have 2 boring but essential books to recommend. They have LOTS of content but are good reading for anyone in the drinking water industry.

1. WHO Drinking Water Quality Guidelines (4th ed)
   Hey, it’s free by clicking the above link to get a softcopy! You probably already know that Singapore follows the WHO Drinking Water Quality Guidelines.
   
2. Standard Methods of the Examination of Water and Wastewater (APHA, AWWA, WEF; 20th ed, 1999) Clicking the above link will get you the softcopy of the 20^th ed. However, if you want the latest edition (23^rd ed, 2017), look for it on Amazon which quoted a price of > USD200.

 

WHO Drinking Water Quality Guidelines (4th ed)

  

Standard Methods of the Examination of Water and Wastewater (APHA, AWWA, WEF; 23rd ed, 2017) - available on Amazon. See text above for the link to the softcopy for the 20th ed.