Department of Civil Engineering

University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Campus-III Bannu

Subject: CE-408L Environmental Engineering- II Lab
(7th Semester Fall-2020)
Assignment No. 1

Name: Tasbeeh Ullah Reg. No: 17BNCIV0920

Guidelines for Drinking water

 S.NO PARAMETERS UNIT NEQs US- WH
EPA O

1 pH value pH 6-10 6.5-8.5 6.5-

8.5
2 Turbidity 5 5

3 Arsenic mg/l 1.0 0.01 50

4 Barium mg/l 1.5 2 1.3

5 COD mg/l 150

6 BOD mg/l 80 5 5
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7 Temperature C 40 25

֍֍ 8 Total suspended solids mg/l 150 500 100

9 Total dissolved solids mg/l 3500 500 1000 ֍֍

10 Chloride (as Cl) mg/l 1000 4 250
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PARMETERS UNIT NEQ US- WH
S EPA O
11 Fluoride (as F) mg/l 20 4 1.5

12 Sulphate (SO4) mg/l 600 250 250

13 Sulphide (S) mg/l 1.0 0.2

14 Ammonia (NH3) mg/l 40 0.25-32.5 12

15 Sodium mg/l 20 200

16 Chlorine mg/l 1.0 4 0.6-1

17 Boron mg/l 6.0 0.6-1.0 2.4

18 Magnesium mg/l 150

19 Nitrate -N mg/l 10 10 10

20 Zinc mg/l 5.0 5.0 5.0

21 Silver mg/l 1.0 0.1 0.003

22 Nickel mg/l 1.0 0.1 0.02