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The AWWA web site contains a list of publications for sale, job postings in the water industry, policy statements, and online discussion forums open to the public. The site also provides members access to its information services, such as the Water Stats and Water Wiser databases.

AGWA's purpose is to create a forum for the discussion of groundwater issues of interest to those entities which, either by court judgment or statute, are responsible for management of groundwater basin resources, and to take action where appropriate in connection with such issues.

The AMSA web site includes their publications list, issues of Clean Water News, job listings, and meeting and registration information.

Web site of the Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM), an organization of professionals committed to the comprehensive management of the nation's floodplains and water resources, including structural and non-structural mitigation measures, with the goal of reducing the deaths and devastation associated with floods and preserving the natural functions and benefits of floodplains.

This site from the University of California Berkeley library provides links to Internet resources for natural resources. Also includes a list of online journals.

The CWWA site includes a Water Efficiency Experiences Database and online ordering for publications. Site is available in both English and French.

This site allows users to view abstracts of papers in the CWRA Journal. Also includes policy statements and scholarship information. Information provided in English and French.

"Founded in 1992, the Center for Watershed Protection works with local, state, and federal governmental agencies, environmental consulting firms, watershed organizations, and the general public to provide objective and scientifically sound information on effective techniques to protect and restore urban watersheds. The Center also acts as a technical resource for local and state governments around the country to develop more effective urban stormwater and watershed protection programs."

Web site of contract sweeping firm providing highway, street and parking lot sweeping. This firm also provides warehoues sweeping and scrubbing, power washing, graffiti removal, catch basin cleaning and equipment sales and rental services.

Water and wastewater utilities across the country are facing many common challenges, including rising costs, aging infrastructure, increasingly stringent regulatory requirements, population changes, and a rapidly changing workforce. Effective utility management is critical to enable utilities to tackle challenges, increase performance and achieve success in the long run. The Effective utility Management Collaboration has developed a series of tools designed to help water and wastewater utilities advance effective utility management practices. The new tools are designed to simplify the Findings and Recommendations for a Water Utility Sector Management Strategy and make the recommendations easier for utility managers to understand and implement at their facilities. Each of the new tools are organized around the 10 Attributes of Effectively Managed Utilities and the 5 Keys to Management Success identified in the Findings and Recommendations for a Water Utility Sector Management Strategy that was released in May 2007.

PowerPoint Presentation [PPT]
Press Release [PDF]
Letter from sixteen member Steering Committee [PDF]
Findings and Recommendations for a Water Utility Sector Management Strategy [PDF]
Summary of Committee Findings [PDF]
Statement of Support [PDF]
Short and Long-Term Action Plan [PDF]
Effective Utility Management Report [PDF]
Primer [PDF]
Electronic Resource Toolbox [LINK]

Water and wastewater utilities across the country are facing many common challenges, including rising costs, aging infrastructure, increasingly stringent regulatory requirements, population changes, and a rapidly changing workforce. Effective utility management is critical to enable utilities to tackle challenges, increase performance and achieve success in the long run. The Effective utility Management Collaboration has developed a series of tools designed to help water and wastewater utilities advance effective utility management practices. The new tools are designed to simplify the Findings and Recommendations for a Water Utility Sector Management Strategy and make the recommendations easier for utility managers to understand and implement at their facilities. Each of the new tools are organized around the 10 Attributes of Effectively Managed Utilities and the 5 Keys to Management Success identified in the Findings and Recommendations for a Water Utility Sector Management Strategy that was released in May 2007.

PowerPoint Presentation [PPT]
Press Release [PDF]
Letter from sixteen member Steering Committee [PDF]
Findings and Recommendations for a Water Utility Sector Management Strategy [PDF]
Summary of Committee Findings [PDF]
Statement of Support [PDF]
Short and Long-Term Action Plan [PDF]
Effective Utility Management Report [PDF]
Primer [PDF]
Electronic Resource Toolbox [LINK]

EPA's Effective Utility Management and LEAN Resource Guide explains how water-sector utilities can use these two important and complementary approaches to reduce waste throughout their operations, while continuing to improve utility products and services for customers.

This document provides uniform response, recovery and remediation guidance for water utility actions in response to man-made and/or technological emergencies. The guidance was developed as an initiative of EPA’s Water Protection Task Force. The intent of this guidance is to provide the minimum actions that EPA recommends be carried out by a water utility. Water utilities ought to consider whether the actions contained within this guidance have been thoroughly coordinated with these entities. Throughout this guidance “water system” includes the “system” elements of source water (ground and surface), drinking water treatment, drinking water distribution and storage, wastewater collection and wastewater treatment.

This document from the EPA is intended to be an action oriented document to assist drinking water utilities, laboratories, emergency responders, state drinking water programs, technical assistance providers, and public health and law enforcement officials during the management of an ongoing contamination threat or incident. The Response Guidelines are derived from the content of the six full modules of the Response Protocol Toolbox. While the Response Protocol Toolbox provides detailed information, the Response Guidelines are to be viewed as the application of the same principles during an actual incident.

A publication from the Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies designed to aid publicly owned treatment works and other NPDES permit holders as the Clean Water Act's total maximum daily load program is implemented (February 1999). Includes the legal arguments for challenging 303(d) listings and load allocations.

List of 19 job titles (determined by the FEMA Public Works (PW) Working Group) most commonly requested in a response

This site allows downloading of the State of Maryland Stormwater Design Manual, Volumes I & II.

West Virginia University web site with links to the National Environmental Training Center for Small Communities, National Small Flows Clearinghouse, National Drinking Water Clearinghouse, and National Onsite (wastewater treatment) Demonstration Project. All of these web sites offer training and information for small and rural communities.

The National Ground Water Association, founded in 1948, is a not-for-profit professional society and trade association for the ground water industry and professions.

The National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service produces information on the characteristics, extent, and status of the Nation's wetlands and deepwater habitats. The site includes downloadable data, status maps, and some publications online.

TwHP program has posted two on-line lesson plans based on historic places, The Greatest Dam in the World: Building Hoover Dam and Making the Desert Bloom: The Rio Grande Project.

State of Texas Non-point Source Best Management Practices manual. Allows downloading of manual outlining best management practices for storm water quality control.

The USGS Water Resources Division site contains news articles, water data, a list of publications and products, public domain software, and links to local water information sites.

Complete 84-page document from the US Department of Homeland Security, "Pandemic Influenza: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Guide for Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources."

The Water Environment Federation's web site includes weekly news, legislative updates, position statements and testimony, conference information, and employment listings.

This site for professionals in the water and wastewater industries offers a buyer's guide, demo software downloads, discussion forums, news articles, and job announcements.

“Although the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) developed NIMS compliance requirements for state, local, and tribal governments, they have not developed requirements for individual sectors, such as the water sector. In the absence of specific requirements, this document provides recommended water sector NIMS implementation objectives that integrate NIMS principles into utility operations and planning.” This handout was developed by the EPA.