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EPA develops innovative software to secure nation’s water supply

Posted Tue, 2010/08/17 - 8:26am by RCAP

Canary software enhances detection of hazardous contaminants in drinking water systems

 

EPA releases Climate-ready Water Utilities Toolbox

Posted Thu, 2010/08/05 - 11:17am by RCAP

The Environmental Protection Agency recently released the Climate-ready Water Utilities (CRWU) Toolbox.  The Toolbox provides a searchable database for water utilities to identify relevant climate change-related impacts and target resources for responding to those challenges, including:

EPA to hold listening sessions on potential revisions to water quality standards regulation

Posted Mon, 2010/08/02 - 12:03pm by RCAP

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold two public listening sessions on potential changes to the water quality standards regulation before proposing a national rule. The current regulation, which has been in place since 1983, governs how states and authorized tribes adopt standards needed under the Clean Water Act to protect the quality of their rivers, streams, lakes, and estuaries.