- Individuals
- Customer service
- Licences, notices and applications
- Alcohol serving and sales
- Animals
- Animal breeding
- Animal health control
- Animal husbandry
- Animal shows and displays
- Animal transport authorisations
- Animal welfare certification
- Animal welfare violations
- Broiler stocking density notifications
- Contagious animal diseases
- Destruction of animals
- Laboratory animals
- Notifications relating to professional or large-scale keeping of animals
- Outdoor cattle grazing
- Wild animal farming
- Burials
- Corporate governance enforcement
- Education and culture
- Property development, housing and joint property management associations
- Real estate or letting agents
- Social welfare and health care
- Water and the environment
- Wealth and assets
- Work and occupational safety and health
- Guidance and advice
- Aerial forest fire surveillance
- Alcohol marketing
- Competition and consumer affairs
- Contagious animal diseases
- Coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
- Customers’ rights
- Estate agents and letting agents
- Food control
- Free-range pigs and poultry
- Health protection
- Medicines
- Patients’ rights
- Restaurants and coronavirus
- Romani affairs
- Tobacco control and enforcement
- Water and the environment
- Wealth and assets
- Welfare and public health
- Challenging decisions
- Enforcement and reporting violations
- Businesses
- Customer service
- Licences, notices and applications
- Alcohol serving and sales
- Animals
- Animal breeding
- Animal husbandry
- Animal health control
- Animal shows and displays
- Animal trade notices
- Animal transport authorisations
- Broiler stocking density notices
- Contagious animal diseases
- Destruction of animals
- Disinfection of livestock transport vehicles
- Disposal of water from animal transport vehicles
- Notifications relating to professional or large-scale keeping of animals
- Outdoor cattle grazing
- Private veterinary care provision
- Reindeer husbandry
- Wild animal farming
- Laboratory animals
- Burials
- Corporate governance enforcement
- Education and culture
- Property development, housing and joint property management associations
- Real estate or letting agents
- Social welfare and health care
- Tobacco sales
- Water and the environment
- Wealth and assets
- Work and occupational safety and health
- Guidance and advice
- Aerial forest fire surveillance
- Alcohol marketing
- Competition and consumer affairs
- Contagious animal diseases
- Coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
- Estate agents and letting agents
- Food control
- Free-range pigs and poultry
- Medicines
- Quality assurance of social services
- Restaurants and coronavirus
- Rights and status of customers
- Rights and status of patients
- Water and the environment
- Romani affairs
- Wealth and assets
- Welfare and public health
- Self-regulation
- Enforcement and reporting violations
- Animals
- Competition and consumer affairs
- Education and culture
- Enforcement of alcohol serving and sales
- Estate agents
- Food
- Local government pilots on employment
- Occupational safety and health
- Oversight of rescue services
- Reporting local authority misconduct
- Social welfare and health care
- Wealth and assets
- Government agencies
- Customer service
- Licences, notices and applications
- Guidance and advice
- Advice on the Finnish Health Protection Act
- Aerial forest fire surveillance
- Contamination of water supply
- Coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
- Coordination of tobacco control
- Environmental health audits and consultancy
- Food
- Libraries
- Medicines
- Quality assurance of social services
- Rights and status of customers
- Rights and status of patients
- Romani affairs
- Veterinary medical care
- Water and the environment
- Welfare and public health
- Self-regulation
- Enforcement and reporting violations
Contamination of water supply
Contamination of water supply refers to an unexpected or sudden situation that may result in the contamination of water supplied to households. Managing the situation may require adopting unusual management models and communication practices.
Preparing for water supply issues
The municipality’s health protection authority must draw up an emergency preparedness plan. The plan must be drawn up together with other authorities and agencies.
At the Regional State Administrative Agencies, our tasks include:
- helping local health protection authorities prepare to different emergencies
- organising education and training events together with other authorities
- coordinating and, where necessary, supporting the efforts of health protection authorities and producing an overview of the region in emergency and abnormal situations.
Reporting an issue with water supply
As the local health protection authority, you must report water supply issues to us. Send a report by contacting the email address of your Regional State Administrative Agency.
- Southern Finland: [email protected]
- Eastern Finland: [email protected]
- Lapland: [email protected]
- Southwestern Finland: [email protected]
- Western and Inland Finland: [email protected]
- Northern Finland: [email protected]
After receiving your report, we will notify the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health.
As the local health protection authority, you must prepare a summary of the measures taken to address the issue. Once the situation has cleared, send the summary to the above-mentioned email address of your Regional State Administrative Agency and Valvira (National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health) via email.
Use the RYMY system instead of email to submit your report and summary, if
- people are suspected to have fallen ill due to contaminated water supply
- infections have been confirmed.
You may report a suspected infection and submit an epidemic analysis using the RYMY system.
Keep in mind that quality deviations detected in small water supply plants supplying less than10 m3/d of domestic water and other facilities subject to regular inspections must also be reported to us.