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Utah's Deseret News has three-part series on impacts of the West's shrinking water supply

Posted Wed, 2012/05/23 - 11:48am by RCAP

Utah's Deseret News is running a three-part series on the impacts of the West's shrinking water supply and the costly battle to find solutions.

Read the first article in the series: "The fight for water: Here's why the West's oldest battle could hit you at the tap"

It begins:

"The West is running out of water.

AWWA Webcast: The Latest on Emergency Water Supply Planning

Posted Thu, 2011/08/25 - 2:09pm by RCAP

August 31, 2011

1:00 - 2:00 p.m. EDT
noon - 1:00 p.m. CDT
11:00 a.m. - noon MDT
10:00 - 11:00 a.m. PDT

Program overview

This webcast will present an overview of the recently released guides on Planning for an Emergency Drinking Water Supply and Emergency Water Supply Planning for Hospitals and Health Care Facilities. 

Emergency water-supply planning guide for hospitals and health care facilities

Posted Thu, 2011/06/30 - 9:44am by RCAP

In order to maintain daily operations and patient-care services, health care facilities need to develop an emergency water-supply plan (EWSP) to prepare for, respond to, and recover from a total or partial interruption of the facilities’ normal water supply. Water-supply interruption can be caused by several types of events, such as natural disaster, a failure of the community water system, construction damage or even an act of terrorism.