REPUBLIC OF TUNISIA

MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Health and environment protection Direction

REGIONAL TRAINING COURSE ON

BEACH WATER
POOLS WATER QUALITY GUIDELINES
MONITORING AND SURVEILLANCE

AMMAN, JORDAN, 20-22 June 2005

Eng. Jamel CHALOUF

Chief Water Monitoring
Department

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 GENERAL DATA

• Tunisian Population : 9.9 millions

• Littoral Population : 6.5 millions
( 65% )
• Touristic Destination : 5.1 millions
• Coast-line : 1300 Km
• Tourism water consumption : 8.2%
• Wastewater treatment plants : 71

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 HEALTH INDICATORS
 The increase of life expancy at birth to
over than 73 years (1956 : 47 years)
 The decrease of Infant mortality under
than 22 ‰ (1985: 51,6 ‰)
 The eradication of certain diseases like
malaria and Bilharzia
 The disappear of Cholera infection since
1986 and also of Viruses poliomyelitis
since 1992
 Typhoid and Hepatitis : declining

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 NATIONAL PROGRAMME OF
WATER-BORNE DISEASE
PREVENTION

Drinking water quality control

Waste water quality control

Bathing water quality control

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 PROGRAMME OF
BATHING WATER QUALITY
CONTROL

Beach water quality control

Swimming pools water quality control

Spas water quality control

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 PROGRAMME OF
BATHING WATER QUALITY
CONTROL

Principal objective

- Transmissible disease prevention

- Water pollution strength

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 PROGRAMME OF
BATHING WATER QUALITY
CONTROL
Specific objectives
- Beach water quality control
- Beach cleaness control
- Identification of pollution sources
- Sanitary inspections
- Contribution & collaboration with
authorities & agencies concerned
- Healthy education for recreationists
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 NATIONAL NETWORK OF
BEACH WATER QUALITY
CONTROL
Components
- 1 central & 11 local inspection teams
- 515 sites of inspection (control points)
- 10 regional public health laboratories
- Tunis Pasteur Institute Laboratory

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 SANITARY INSPECTOR ACTIVITIES
(BEACH WATER)

- Pollution sources inventory (inquiry)

- Choice of inspection sites ( importance ,
frequenting, pollution hazards)
- Beach water quality control ( bact.&PC)
- Sampling programme: 17 samples/site/year
winter season : October to April
1 sample /site/month
summer season: May to September
2 samples /site/month
- Healthy education
- Healthy authorities information
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 LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL BASIS
(BEACH WATER)

- Law n°16/75 (1975) : creation of the Water Code

- Law n°94/88 (1988) : revision of the Water Code
- Tunisian Standards:
NT 106.06 (1989) : Environmental protection – Effluents - Sewage
NT 09.11 (1983) : Bathing water quality
NT 09.01 (1983) : Sampling programmes
NT 09.02 (1983) : Sampling technique
NT 09.03 (1989) : Conservation & treatment of Samples

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 TUNISIAN STANDARDS RELATING TO BEACH WATER
BACTERIOLOGICAL QUALITY NT 09.11 (1983)

IMPERATIVES GUIDES PARAMETR ES

‫القصـ ـوـى‬ ‫الدلــيل‬ ‫المعايـ ــير‬
500 0 Coliformes totaux / 100 ml
‫مجموـ ــع القوـلوـنيات‬
100 0 Coliformes Thermotolérants / 100 ml
‫القوـلوـنيات البرـازـية‬
100 0 Stréptocoques Fécaux / 100 ml
‫العقديات البرـازـية‬
0 0 Salmonelles / 1 litre
‫السالموـنيال‬
0 0 Antérovirus PFU / 10 ml
‫الفيرـوـسات‬

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 BEACH WATER QUALITY CLASSIFICATION :
EUROPEAN GUIDELINES
IMPERATIVES GUIDES PARAMETR ES
‫القصـ ـوـى‬ ‫الدلـيل‬ ‫المعايــير‬
10 000 500 Coliformes totaux / 100 ml
‫مجموـ ــع القوـلوـنيات‬
2 000 100 Coliformes Thermotolérants / 100 ml
‫القوـلوــنيات البرـازـية‬
100 Stréptocoques Fécaux / 100 ml
‫العقديات البرـازـية‬
0 Salmonelles / 1 litre
‫السالموـنيال‬
0 Antérovirus PFU / 10 ml
‫الفيرـوـسات‬
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 BEACH WATER QUALITY CLASSIFICATION :
TUNISIAN STANDARDS / EUROPEAN GUIDELINES

IN 2004

- Class A: good water quality in 57% of permanent control points

- Class B: medium water quality in 26% of permanent control points

- Class C: occasionally polluted water quality in 17% of control points

- Class D: poor quality in 0% of sea permanent control points

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BEACH WATER QUALITY CLASSIFICATION :
TUNISIAN STANDARDS / EUROPEAN GUIDELINES
IN 2004

CLAS S IFICAT ION DE LA QUALIT E MICROBIOLOGIQUE

DE S E AUX DU LIT T ORAL T UNIS IE N DURANT L'ANNEE 2 004

17%

57%
26%

"‫صنف " أ‬ "O‫صنف "ب‬ "O‫صنف "ج‬ "‫نف "د‬O‫ص‬

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 ‫‪BEACH WATER QUALITY CLASSIFICATION : 1994 - 2004‬‬
‫‪TUNISIAN STANDARDS / EUROPEAN GUIDELINES‬‬
‫مقارنة النوعية البكتريولوجية لمياه السباحة بالشريط الساحلي التونسي خالل‬
‫االعشر سنوات األخيرة ‪2004 - 1994‬‬

‫‪80‬‬

‫‪70‬‬

‫‪60‬‬
‫النسبة المئوية‬

‫‪50‬‬

‫‪40‬‬

‫‪30‬‬

‫‪20‬‬

‫‪10‬‬

‫‪0‬‬
‫‪1994‬‬ ‫‪1995‬‬ ‫‪1996‬‬ ‫‪1997‬‬ ‫‪1998‬‬ ‫‪1999‬‬ ‫‪2000‬‬ ‫‪2001‬‬ ‫‪2002‬‬ ‫‪2003‬‬ ‫‪2004‬‬
‫صن‪O‬ف‪ O‬أ‬ ‫‪57‬‬ ‫‪67‬‬ ‫‪62‬‬ ‫‪47‬‬ ‫‪61‬‬ ‫‪49‬‬ ‫‪64‬‬ ‫‪68‬‬ ‫‪63‬‬ ‫‪66‬‬ ‫‪57‬‬
‫صن‪O‬ف‪ O‬ب‬ ‫‪18‬‬ ‫‪10‬‬ ‫‪26‬‬ ‫‪25‬‬ ‫‪19‬‬ ‫‪26‬‬ ‫‪20‬‬ ‫‪20‬‬ ‫‪21‬‬ ‫‪16‬‬ ‫‪26‬‬
‫صن‪O‬ف‪ O‬ج‪O‬‬ ‫‪25‬‬ ‫‪22‬‬ ‫‪12‬‬ ‫‪26‬‬ ‫‪20‬‬ ‫‪25‬‬ ‫‪16‬‬ ‫‪12‬‬ ‫‪16‬‬ ‫‪18‬‬ ‫‪17‬‬
‫صن‪O‬ف‪ O‬د‬ ‫‪0‬‬ ‫‪1‬‬ ‫‪0‬‬ ‫‪2‬‬ ‫‪0‬‬ ‫‪0‬‬ ‫‪0‬‬ ‫‪0‬‬ ‫‪0‬‬ ‫‪0‬‬ ‫‪0‬‬

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 PROGRAMME OF
BATHING WATER QUALITY
CONTROL

Swimming pools water quality control

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SANITARY INSPECTOR ACTIVITIES
( indoor and outdoor public swimming pools)
The sanitary inspector is in position:

- to make deep inquiry and to notify anomalies for th manager

- to verify maintenance, cleaning surfaces, ventilation

- to control freshness of water and underwater visibility

- to measure any parameters/ Ph, T°, Free Residual Chlorine

- to supervise process and efficiency of disinfection

- to see the register taked by the manager

-to give pool healthy education

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 LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL BASIS
(SWIMMING POOLS WATER)

- Tunisian Standards:
NT 09.12 (1983) : Swimming pools water quality
NT 09.01 (1983) : Sampling programmes
NT 09.02 (1983) : Sampling technique
NT 09.03 (1989) : Conservation & treatment of Samples

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 CONTROL QUALITY RESULTS

In 2004, to evaluate water pools

quality :

- 1720 samples taked in 698 swimming

pools for microbiological analysis

- the results show a rate of 14.65% of

unfit sample.

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 Thank you for listening

 e-mail: jamel.chalouf@laposte.net

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