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The following products and services are currently available through DrinkingH2O.com. For more information please contact us at webmaster@drinkingh2o.com.

Public Education - Our award-winning public outreach section includes an online presentation, "Drinking Water 101," explaining drinking water resources and treatment processes. A useful educational tool for students as well as adults. Additional presentations are available online or for download, including "Information Revolution: Turning Data into Information, A Strategic Necessity" and "The Bottom Line on the ICR Microbial Data." Links to basic information and FAQs about drinking water are provided.
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Information Collection Rule (Password Required)
AMWA Water Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) - The Water ISAC will be a highly secure, Internet-based communications tool designed to facilitate communication among drinking water and wastewater utilities and counterterrorism and law enforcement experts.
AWWARF Project 488 - The drinking water community is faced with the challenge of providing microbiologically safe drinking water supplies. Numerous suspected waterborne disease outbreaks in the U.S. over the last decade have rendered current treatment practices questionable with regard to their ability to adequately protect public health from microbial threats. Available evidence suggests that without an improved understanding of source water vulnerability to such pathogens, appropriate control measures are suspect. Effective monitoring strategies are required in order to ensure that the treatments used are appropriate for the microbial challenges present in each source.

AWWARF Project 488 is a critical research effort to advance our understanding of pathogen occurrence, their sources of variability, and the monitoring program requirements to assist public water suppliers and regulators in quantifying the vulnerability of drinking water supplies to pathogens. A paper and PowerPoint presentation reporting preliminary analyses are now available (visit the Project 488 home page to download). For more information on this project, please contact webmaster@drinkingh2o.com.
AWWARF Project 2580 (Password Required) - Infectious Disease Associated with Drinking Water from Surface Water Sources - Microbiological Water Quality Factors. The proposed project will run concurrent to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)/Centers for Disease Control (CDC) epidemiology study to be conducted in Davenport, Iowa and provide a context for evaluating the health survey results and a possible basis for evaluating health effects. This project will provide comprehensive data on raw water quality, treatment plant process parameters, distribution system performance, and household tap water quality. For more information on this project, please contact webmaster@drinkingh2o.com.
AWWARF Project 2756: Chemical Data Sets for Source Water Assessment Programs (Password Required) - Under this project, chemical occurrence databases and datasets that can be employed by state and utilities to perform Source Water Assessment Programs (SWAPS) were identified, listed, and characterized. SWAPS are a part of Section 1453 of the 1996 amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act requiring all states to establish SWAPs. Each SWAP includes the submission to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of a detailed plan to delineate source water assessment areas, inventory significant contaminants in these areas, and determine the susceptibility of each public water supply to contamination.
AWWARF Project 2944: Identifying Knowledge Gaps with TMDLs and Drinking Water Utilities - The drinking water community has expressed the need for a role in the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) process. To respond to these identified needs, the Project Team comprised of Perot Systems Government Services (PSGS) and Limno-Tech, Inc. (LTI), who are nationally recognized experts in drinking water issues, water quality and TMDLs, will moderate a two-day workshop that will identify gaps in current knowledge regarding TMDLs and drinking water utilities; identify benefits and impacts to water utilities from the establishment of TMDLs; open communication between regulatory agencies and drinking water utilities; and identify future TMDL research needs that support the drinking water utilities.



Inside H2Onews: Suez water subsidiary ditches $574 million contract Sixty reservoirs inspected following vandalism	DrinkingH2O.com Services The following products and services are currently available through DrinkingH2O.com. For more information please contact us at webmaster@drinkingh2o.com. Public Education - Our award-winning public outreach section includes an online presentation, "Drinking Water 101," explaining drinking water resources and treatment processes. A useful educational tool for students as well as adults. Additional presentations are available online or for download, including "Information Revolution: Turning Data into Information, A Strategic Necessity" and "The Bottom Line on the ICR Microbial Data." Links to basic information and FAQs about drinking water are provided. Vulnerability Assessment Survey (Password Required) Information Collection Rule (Password Required) AMWA Water Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) - The Water ISAC will be a highly secure, Internet-based communications tool designed to facilitate communication among drinking water and wastewater utilities and counterterrorism and law enforcement experts. AWWARF Project 488 - The drinking water community is faced with the challenge of providing microbiologically safe drinking water supplies. Numerous suspected waterborne disease outbreaks in the U.S. over the last decade have rendered current treatment practices questionable with regard to their ability to adequately protect public health from microbial threats. Available evidence suggests that without an improved understanding of source water vulnerability to such pathogens, appropriate control measures are suspect. Effective monitoring strategies are required in order to ensure that the treatments used are appropriate for the microbial challenges present in each source. AWWARF Project 488 is a critical research effort to advance our understanding of pathogen occurrence, their sources of variability, and the monitoring program requirements to assist public water suppliers and regulators in quantifying the vulnerability of drinking water supplies to pathogens. A paper and PowerPoint presentation reporting preliminary analyses are now available (visit the Project 488 home page to download). For more information on this project, please contact webmaster@drinkingh2o.com. AWWARF Project 2580 (Password Required) - Infectious Disease Associated with Drinking Water from Surface Water Sources - Microbiological Water Quality Factors. The proposed project will run concurrent to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)/Centers for Disease Control (CDC) epidemiology study to be conducted in Davenport, Iowa and provide a context for evaluating the health survey results and a possible basis for evaluating health effects. This project will provide comprehensive data on raw water quality, treatment plant process parameters, distribution system performance, and household tap water quality. For more information on this project, please contact webmaster@drinkingh2o.com. AWWARF Project 2756: Chemical Data Sets for Source Water Assessment Programs (Password Required) - Under this project, chemical occurrence databases and datasets that can be employed by state and utilities to perform Source Water Assessment Programs (SWAPS) were identified, listed, and characterized. SWAPS are a part of Section 1453 of the 1996 amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act requiring all states to establish SWAPs. Each SWAP includes the submission to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of a detailed plan to delineate source water assessment areas, inventory significant contaminants in these areas, and determine the susceptibility of each public water supply to contamination. AWWARF Project 2944: Identifying Knowledge Gaps with TMDLs and Drinking Water Utilities - The drinking water community has expressed the need for a role in the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) process. To respond to these identified needs, the Project Team comprised of Perot Systems Government Services (PSGS) and Limno-Tech, Inc. (LTI), who are nationally recognized experts in drinking water issues, water quality and TMDLs, will moderate a two-day workshop that will identify gaps in current knowledge regarding TMDLs and drinking water utilities; identify benefits and impacts to water utilities from the establishment of TMDLs; open communication between regulatory agencies and drinking water utilities; and identify future TMDL research needs that support the drinking water utilities.	This month: 2004 North American Environmental Field Conference and Exposition 10th Underground Construction Technology International Conference & Exhibition
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