​​​​​Testing Guidelines

• National Water Quality Management Strategy including water quality guidelines and benchmarks.​

• Water Quality Australia provides information and guidelines about water for drinking water, irrigation water, recreational water, as well as effluent, sewage and recycling water for various purposes.

• Australian Drinking Water Guidelines has information on recommended levels of various chemical compounds in drinking water. See chapter 10 Table 10.6 of the downloadable 1147 page guideline document for health and aesthetic values.

• The Tasmanian Public Health Service – Drinking Wa​ter Quality page​ has many useful links and information pertinent to Tasmania including treated water supplies, rural water supplies, commercial water carriers, private water suppliers, water quality guidelines and reports, and rainwater tanks

• Classification & Management of Contaminated Soil for Disposal - Informa​tion Bulletin 105​.
  

• Tasmanian Biosolids Reuse Guideline - See table 4.1, page 13 for concentration thresholds

• NEPM (Assessment of site contamination) Sched​ule B3​ – Guideline on laboratory analysis of potentially contaminated soils (86 page pdf)

• Packaged water must comply with the Australia and New Zealand food standards code and the Tasmanian food act. Currently the ANZFSC standard  references the World Health Organisation guideline limits for packaged water: Annex Table A3.3

• ​AST brochures
  

• AST Submission forms
  

• How to complete an AST submission form
  
  
• AST sample container information
  
  
• ​Accredited Potable Water Tests available at AST
  
  
• ​AST's FAQs 
  
  
• ​AST’s NATA scope of accreditation
  

​Chemi​stry​

​Biol​ogical​

​​Useful Links

Educational and Community Information

• CSIRO Science Education

• STEM professionals in Schools
  

• Derwent Estuary Program

• Natural Resource Management (NRM) in Tasmania:

      South
      North

• Water Quality Monitoring in Tasmania (NRE information and reports on catchments and rivers)

• Blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) and water quality information from the Australian department of Agriculture and Water Resources (Water Quality Australia)
  

• Algal biotoxins information from Biosecurity Tasmania
  

• Rain water tank information

      Your Home – Australia’s guide to environmentally sustainable homes
      CSIRO top rain water tank tips
      Department of Health and Age Care - Guidance on the use ​of rainwater tanks​ ​

Scientific Inform​ation

• Algaebase database of information including terrestrial, marine and freshwater organisms 

• Database of cyanobacteria 

• Chemical structure database (Chemspider)

• National Environmental Methods Index (USA)