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GWPC is pleased to announce the availability of “Opportunities to Protect Drinking Water and Advance Watershed Goals Through the Clean Water Act: A Toolkit for State, Interstate, Tribal and Federal Water Program Managers.” This Toolkit is designed to enable state and EPA water quality practitioners to better protect drinking water supplies using regulatory and non-regulatory provisions of the Clean Water Act and achieve mutual goals – better protected sources of drinking water and improved water quality.
The Toolkit is the result of a multi-year collaborative effort by state and EPA water quality managers across clean water and safe drinking water programs. The group drew on expertise and examples of success from many states to provide the most promising opportunities to address complex water quality challenges that could benefit from a coordinated and collaborative approach, leveraging all available tools and resources.
This Toolkit:
- identifies opportunities to reduce pollution in drinking water sources by using CWA tools;
- provides examples of on-the-ground implementation;
- demonstrates how program managers can align their efforts to protect source water through a combination of actions and institutional relationships that facilitate cross-program coordination at the national, regional, state, and watershed scales to achieve common objectives; and
- shows how state clean water programs can leverage the high value that consumers place on public health protection and safe drinking water to increase public support for addressing surface and ground water quality challenges more effectively.
The Toolkit is complete and can be used now to support coordination and collaboration between safe drinking water and clean water managers. The Toolkit is also being disseminated by state and EPA clean water managers to their respective networks.
GWPC Contact – Dan Yates – dyates@gwpc.org