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Video on the effects of unclean water

Posted Mon, 2010/04/26 - 9:51am by RCAP

GOODMagazine released this video for World Water Day (March 22) that shows the ripple effects (pun intended) of unclean drinking water. The consequences of unclean water are most severe in developing countries, where poverty, lack of education, poor living conditions and other conditions are often caused by or exacerbated by unclean sources of water. Although the United States is a developed country, unclean water still has some of the effects that are shown in this video.

 

Two more new WARN fact sheets

Posted Tue, 2010/04/20 - 4:21pm by RCAP

Two new fact sheets on WARN – Water/Wastewater Agency Response Networks – are available from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. They provide background on WARN and describe their benefits to state primacy agencies and wastewater systems.
 
The fact sheets are an ideal resource for increasing WARN membership by assisting with WARN outreach efforts.

EPA releases water-quality scorecard

Posted Tue, 2010/04/20 - 4:19pm by RCAP

EPA is releasing a first-of-its-kind water-quality scorecard that will help communities in rural, suburban and urban settings incorporate green infrastructure practices to protect local water quality and improve both the built and natural environment.
 
The Water Quality Scorecard was developed to help local governments identify opportunities to remove barriers and revise and create codes, ordinances and incentives to better protect water quality.