Water quality standards: Laws or regulations, promulgated under Section 303 of the Clean Water Act, ...
Water Quality Standards: State-adopted and EPA-approved ambient standards for water bodies. The standards prescribe the use of the water body and establish the water quality criteria that must be met to protect designated uses.
Water quality standards: Recommended or enforceable maximum contaminant levels of chemicals or materials (such as chlorobenzene, nitrate, iron, arsenic) in water.
water quality standards
Established limits of certain chemical, physical, and biological parameters in a water body; water quality standards are established for the different designated uses of a water body.
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Water Quality Standards are purity standards of water for domestic use which are internationally acceptable. The World Health Organisation (WHO) publishes "Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality".
water quality standard (WQS) : The combination of a designated use and the maximum concentration of a pollutant which will protect that use for any given body of water.
Receiving water quality standards Standards which require a discharger to maintain a certain quality level in the receiving water.
Recycling The recovery and reuse of a product which would otherwise be thrown away.
aesthetic standards Water quality standards which involve those physical, biological, and chemical properties of water that adversely affect the palatability and consumer acceptability of water through taste, odor, appearance or chemical reaction.
Designated Uses- Those water uses identified in state water quality standards that must be achieved and maintained as required under the Clean Water Act. Uses can include cold water fisheries, public water supply, and irrigation.
Effluent limitations applied to dischargers when mere technology-based limitations would cause violations of water quality standards. Usually applied to discharges into small streams.
Source: Terms of the Environment
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It has set wastewater standards for businesses and boats, as well as water quality standards for any potential water contaminants, and funded the construction of sewage treatment plants to reuse wastewater.
Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB)
Agencies that maintain water quality standards for areas within their jurisdictions and enforce state water quality laws.
Technology-Based Limitations: Industry-specific effluent limitations based on best available preventive technology applied to a discharge when it will not cause a violation of water quality standards at low stream flows.
Safe Drinking Water Act(SDWA): passed by Congress in 1974, and ammended in 1986, to insure safe drinking water. It directs the EPA to establish and enforce water quality standards to protect public health.
 See also: Water quality, Water, Soil, Discharge, Standards
  
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