When Health Canada has intent to update guidelines related to drinking water, a technical guideline document is developed to propose these changes. The document is first reviewed by external experts before seeking comments from the public during a limited consultation period.
Below you can access open and closed consultations. Information to submit comments is located within each link on Health Canada’s website.
Open Consultations
- Draft guidance on sampling and mitigation measures for controlling corrosion (all comments must be received before February 15, 2023)
- Consultation: Draft technical document guidelines for Canadian drinking water quality – Antimony (all comments must be received before March 8, 2023)
- Draft objective for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in Canadian drinking water (all comments must be received before April 12, 2023)
Recently Closed Consultations
- Share your ideas: Consultation on amendments to the Wastewater Systems Effluent Regulations
- Consultation: Guidelines for Canadian recreational water quality: Microbiological pathogens and biological hazards
Past Consultations
- Consultation: Proposed Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality for Malathion
- Consultation: Guidelines for Canadian Recreational Water Quality – Understanding and Managing Risks in Recreational Waters
- Consultation: Guidelines for Canadian Recreational Water Quality: Indicators of Fecal Contamination
- Consultation: Proposed guidelines for Canadian drinking water quality for dimethoate and omethoate
- 4-Chloro-2-methylphenoxyacetic Acid (MCPA) in Drinking Water: Guideline Technical Document for Public Consultation
- Consultation: Guidelines for recreational water quality: Physical, aesthetic and chemical characteristics
- Consultation: Proposed guideline for Bromoxynil in drinking water
- Consultation: Cyanobacteria and their Toxins in Recreational Water – Guideline Technical Document
- Proposed guideline technical document for dicamba in drinking water
- Boron in Drinking Water: Guideline Technical Document for Public Consultation
- Guidance on Monitoring the Biological Stability of Drinking Water in Distribution Systems
- Proposed guideline for Canadian drinking water quality for metribuzin
- Withdrawal of Select Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality
- Consultation – Cadmium in Drinking Water
- Consultation – Guidance on Natural Organic Matter in Drinking Water
- Consultation – Guidance on the use of Enterococci bacteria as indicators in Canadian drinking water supplies
- Consultation on 1,4-dioxane in drinking water
- Consultation on aluminum in drinking water
- Consultation on Barium in drinking water
- Consultation on Chloramines in drinking water
- Consultation on copper in drinking water
- Consultation on enteric viruses in drinking water
- Consultation on Escherichia coli (E. coli) in Drinking Water
- Consultation on guidance on the use of quantitative microbial risk assessment in drinking water
- Consultation on strontium in drinking water
- Consultation on the review of guideline technical document – Total coliforms in drinking water
- Consultation on uranium in drinking water
- Consultation on uranium in drinking water
View these similar posts for more information.
Proposed Amendments to the Wastewater Systems Effluent Regulations
Health Canada Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality
Federal Drinking Water Systems
Regulatory Resources for Ontario Systems
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