Request to the WHO: include nitrate in drinking water quality guidelines review

03 November 2026

SAFE and more than eighty other organisations have co-signed a letter to the World Health Organization, requesting that the WHO include nitrate in its upcoming review of the Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality.

This initiative aims to protect public health, climate resilience, ecosystems, and encourage a transition to ecological farming methods. It calls for the formal inclusion of nitrate on the priority list of chemical contaminants for full evaluation in the
5th Edition of the Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality.