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EPA webinar: How a Multi-Year Training and Exercise (T&E) Plan Can Help You

Posted Mon, 2012/08/20 - 9:54am by RCAP

This brief webinar will help you improve your emergency preparedness.

WHO: Drinking water and wastewater utilities interested in learning how to develop a training and exercise plan and how its implementation can help improve their organizations’ emergency preparedness.

WHAT: A webinar that provides information on steps to take when developing a multi-year training and exercise plan and lessons learned from DC Water, which has developed its own plan.

EPA to hold webinar on sustainability planning for utilities

Posted Fri, 2012/08/17 - 4:30pm by RCAP

Effective planning is essential for utilities to sustainably manage their operations and ensure that water infrastructure investments are cost effective over their life cycle, resource-efficient, and support other relevant community sustainability goals.

EPA Virtual Academy webinar: Water-Quality Standards 101

Posted Mon, 2012/07/23 - 10:33am by RCAP

Join EPA for the first Water-Quality Standards Virtual Academy webinar: “Water Quality Standards 101.”  Water-quality standards are the foundation of the water-quality-based pollution control program mandated by the Clean Water Act. Water-quality standards define the goals for a waterbody by designating its uses, setting criteria to protect those uses, and establishing provisions such as antidegradation policies to protect water bodies from pollutants.