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WaterNews for November 3, 2005Benjamin Grumbles WaterNews is a weekly on-line publication that announces publications, policies, and activities of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water. In This Week’s WaterNews:
Opening of Nominations for the 2006 National Wetland AwardsNomination forms for the 2006 National Wetlands Awards Program are now available. The Awards will be given in six categories: Education and Outreach; Science Research; Conservation and Restoration; Landowner Stewardship; State, Tribal, and Local Program Development; and Wetland Community Leader. To download the nomination form, please visit the Environmental Law Institute’s website at http://www2.eli.org/nwa/nwaprogram.htm. Program co-sponsors are the Environmental Law Institute, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USDA Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, NOAA Fisheries, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Federal Highway Administration. 2006 Water Quality Trading ConferenceThe Second National Water Quality Trading Conference will be held May 23-25, 2006, in Pittsburgh, PA. The conference is hosted by EPA and USDA and sponsored by a number of organizations, agencies, and companies. A one-day pre-conference workshop on Trading Basics, taught by EPA, will be held on May 22, 2006. For more information, including a call for abstracts, go to: For more information please contact Virginia Kibler at 202-564-0596 or kibler.virginia@epa.gov or Carl Lucero at 301-504-2222 or Carl.Lucero@wdc.usda.gov . Mid-Atlantic Green Highways ForumThe Mid-Atlantic Green Highways Forum is being held November 8-10, 2005, at the Marriott Conference Center in College Park, Maryland. The goal is to promote innovations in transportation and environmental planning, as well as program implementation. The Forum is cosponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, Environmental Protection Agency Region III, American Concrete Pavement Association, American Coal Ash Association, the Maryland State Highway Administration and other state transportation and environmental agencies, along with other key public and private constituents, including industry trade organizations, non-governmental organizations, contractors and academia. For more information on the Mid-Atlantic Green Highways Forum go to http://www.greenhighways.org. Contact the EPA Region III representatives who are leading this effort, Dominique Lueckenhoff at (215) 814-2740 or Denise Rigney at (215) 814-2726 if you have any questions. Water Efficiency FactoidIn the United States today, there are over 260 million toilets. That's almost one toilet per person across the country. In 1994, a Federal standard went into effect to increase the water-efficiency of America's toilets, limiting water use to 1.6 gallons per flush. Some of the early "low-flow" toilets did not perform well, and 1.6 gallons per flush toilets as a whole developed a reputation for poor quality. Since that time, manufacturers have re-engineered their toilets, and now 1.6 gallon per flush toilets perform as well or better than less water-efficient models. A recent survey of plumbers and contractors revealed that almost 90% believe that today toilets function better or far better than they did ten years ago. Despite the fact that the 1.6 gallons per flush standard has been in effect for over ten years, and despite the improvement in toilet performance, over 40% of toilets today still are of the older, higher-water use type. These older toilets use more than twice the amount of water of their newer counterparts. Subscribe to WaterNewsPlease forward this message to your friends and colleagues who share an interest in water-related issues and would like to hear from EPA's Office of Water. To subscribe to the WaterNews listserve: Send an email message, leave the subject line blank, and address it to: In the body of the message write: Subscribe WaterNews firstname lastname (Please leave one blank space between each word, do not include any other message, and use your actual name- i.e. Subscribe WaterNews Robert Jones) A welcome message will appear in your email box once you are officially subscribed.
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