Water quality
Alternative labels
Water testing
Briefing paper
Monitoring wastewater to detect COVID-19
This paper responds to a request for advice on the feasibility of monitoring wastewater for early detection and monitoring of COVID-19 in the population.
Report
Quality unknown: the invisible water crisis
This report shows how poor water quality stalls economic progress, stymies human potential, and reduces food production. The report calls for a paradigm shift that emphasizes safer, and often more cost-effective remedies that prevent pollution by combining smarter policies with newer technologies.
Guide
Water quality guidelines for public aquatic facilities: managing public health risks
This guideline assists organisations and people who operate public aquatic facilities to reduce risks to public health. It also provides advice to local and state government environmental health officers to help fulfil their regulatory and advisory roles with respect to water quality.
Report
Global Environment Outlook 6 for industry in Asia-Pacific
This report shows the environmental problems in Asia-Pacific, how they are caused, and how they can be addressed by the region’s rapid industrialization.
Discussion paper
A fish kill Q and A: questions, answers and dead fish in the Menindee Lakes
This research by the Australia Institute suggests that the Darling River fish kill was due to the mismanagement of the Menindee Lakes in southwest New South Wales.