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Water Quality

Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Fluoride


Table 6.1 Literature Criteria for Fluoride: Livestock and Wildlife


Criteria
(mg/L)

Conditions

Jurisdiction

Reference

Date

0.8-1.7

-temperature dependent livestock and
wildlife criteria

BC

Anon

1969

1.0

-livestock drinking water when the
food contains supplementary fluoride

Canada

Anon (CCREM)

1987

 

-surface water quality objectives

Manitoba

Anon

1979

1.5

-surface water quality objectives

Saskatchewan

Anon

1975

   

Alberta

Anon

1977

   

Alberta

Anon

-

2.0

-livestock drinking water when

Canada

Anon (EPA)

1973

 

food contains no fluoride additives

Canada

Anon (CCREM)

1987

   

USA

Anon (EPA)

1973

   

Ontario

Anon

1984

   

Australia

Hart

1974

 

-toxicant level for livestock watering

Australia

Anon

1982a

   

Australia

Anon

1982b

   

Australia

Anon

1981a

 

-class 4B water used for agriculture
and wildlife (stock watering)

Manitoba

Anon

1980

 

-95th percentile stock watering criteria

Britain

Anon

1982

 

-total fluoride for livestock

Saskatchewan

Anon

1988

3.0

-99th percentile stock watering criteria

Britain

Puls

1981



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