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Webcast on effective utility management and Lean at water-sector utilities

Posted Tue, 2012/10/16 - 3:36pm by RCAP

On November 8, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. ET, EPA will host a webcast to explore the connections between Effective Utility Management and Lean tools. Lean methods combined with the effective utility-management framework have enabled water and wastewater utilities to save millions of dollars, avoid customer rate increases, improve product quality, enhance customer service, reduce energy costs and environmental pollution, and improve employee morale.

EPA Watershed Academy webcast on "Using the New Water Quality Portal"

Posted Tue, 2012/10/16 - 3:33pm by RCAP

On October 23, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. ET, EPA's Watershed Academy will host a webinar for water-quality managers and others to learn about the new Water-Quality Portal for water-quality data The portal brings together chemical, physical and microbiological data from EPA's Storage and Retrieval Data Warehouse and USGS's National Water Information System for scientists, policy-makers, and the public in a single, user-friendly web interface, while reducing the burden of searching, compiling, and formatting water monitoring data for analysis.

Register for webcast on USDA’s National Water Quality Initiative

Posted Tue, 2012/07/03 - 9:49am by RCAP

Join EPA for a Watershed Academy webcast on July 10, 2012, from 1 to 3 p.m. Eastern time to learn more about the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Water Quality Initiative.  The initiative is focusing on 157 priority watersheds in the U.S.