Resources
The following resources have been curated to help with planning for disasters, water supply and logistics planning
Drinking Water Guidelines, Rules and Regulations

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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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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