Upcoming:
What: RCAP 2021 National Conference
When: August 17-19, 2021
Where: Virtual
The RCAP National Conference is an opportunity for technical assistance providers from across the country to gather together and discuss common challenges, issues and opportunities faced in rural communities.
What: RuralRISE
When: September 20 - 21, 2021
Where: Virtual
Mark your calendars for RuralRise. Registration opens soon and will be held via Zoom. More information to come.
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Water Loss Control
AWWA: Water Loss ControlThe latest version of AWWA’s industry-standard free water audit software.Southwest Environmental Finance Center: Water Loss SwitchboardA repository of documentation and tools related to measuring and addressing non-revenue water.Southwest Environmental Finance Center: The Water Audit Handbook for Small Drinking Water SystemsGuide to help small water systems prepare a water audit using the AWWA/IWA
Read MoreVeterans Working in Water
EPA: Water Workforce Veteran Promotion Tips for water and wastewater utilities considering hiring veterans and promote interagency activities to improve career opportunities for disabled Veterans in the water sector. EPA: Guide for Applying Military Occupational Specialties (M.O.S.) to Civilian Drinking Water and Wastewater Operations Guide highlighting relevant MOSs and tips for water and wastewater utilities
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Keeping it Simple to Treat Wastewater Lagoons
By Aubrey Neussendorfer, Technical Assistance Provider, Midwest Assistance Partnership (MAP) Small communities with limited budgets need to be especially creative to solve issues within their wastewater systems. Innovative and affordable solutions help communities treat their wastewater systems without compromising their budgets. These alternative methods, like using Dawn dish soap to aid in the treatment of fats, oils, and greases (FOG) or using barley straw bales in lagoons for treating
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LaMonte Guillory’s Story
Imagine, for the moment, the world’s information highway, an always-changing, fast-moving, and remarkably noisy freeway of all things communications. It’s a complex ecosystem with a broad universe of disciplines in the communications toolbox. With Public relations, advertising, and marketing merging onto the social, digital, radio, print, and broadcast media speedway. An electric race where everyone
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Straight from the TAP – Katrina Hiott
Katrina Hiott is a Rural Development Specialist II in Northern California with RCAP’s western partner, Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC). She has been employed with RCAC for three years. Prior to working with RCAC and the water industry, Katrina pursued a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Resource Science at UC Davis, worked on the Eastern Shore
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RCAP Honors U.S. Representative Bishop with 2021 Congressional Champion Award
RCAP gives network partner organizations the chance to recognize a member of Congress from their service territory who are exceptional allies of the RCAP Network and rural communities across the United States Washington, DC (February 24, 2021) — The Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP), Inc. and its national network of six regional partners honors U.S. Representative Sanford Bishop (D-GA-2) with a 2021 Congressional Champion Award for his outstanding
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RCAP Honors U.S. Senator Grassley with 2021 Congressional Champion Award
Washington, DC (February 23, 2021) — The Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP), Inc. and its national network of six regional partners honors U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) with a 2021 Congressional Champion Award for his outstanding service, dedication, and tireless advocacy on behalf of rural communities and small towns across the nation. Established in 2019, RCAP’s bipartisan congressional awards are given to policymakers who have gone above
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Cybersecurity – Are You Prepared?
By now, many of you have heard of the cyber attack on the water treatment facility in the City of Oldsmar, FL on February 5, 2021. You can view the city’s press conference at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx1wTh8G97Q. The event consisted of unauthorized remote access to the utility’s supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system where an intruder
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A Story of Hope
Have you ever known or met a person that grew up with the odds stacked against them and wondered – how is that person going to make it? Perhaps a person that grew up in a poor, single parent home? Or perhaps a person who was left to defend themselves as a child, plus had
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