Research Article

The New Standard for Drinking Water

Table 3

Toxicity level of drinking water.

IndicatorMeasurement unitsNorm
Water of systems of centralized drinking water supplyWater of uncentralized drinking water supply additionally purified (unbottled, bottled)

Chronic toxicity on Ceriodaphnia affinis Number of dead individuals and (or) a decrease of the number of newly born individuals in an experiment compared with the reference during 7 ± 1 daysNot determinedAbsence of chronic toxicity
Genotoxicity on Drosophila melanogaster MgRate of occurrence of dominant lethal mutations in an experiment compared with the reference during 72 hDittoGenotoxicity absent
Toxicity on Tetrahymena pyriformis A reduction of the increment coefficient of the number of infusorians in an experiment compared with the reference during the time set—24 hours (a short-term biotesting) or 96% (a long-term biotesting)“ ”Toxicity absent
Toxicity on Vibrio fischeri Reduction of the level of luminescence of bacteria in an experiment compared with the reference over 30 min“ ”Toxicity absent
Genotoxicity on Salmonella typhimurium A deviation of the total mutagenic activity of umuC-gene of bacteria Salmonella typhimurium in an experiment compared with a reference over 4 hours“ ”Genotoxicity absent