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Water Headlines for January 19, 2007Benjamin H. Grumbles Water Headlines 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 Water Headlines:
Physical Security Standards for Trial Use are now Available for Drinking Water and Wastewater UtilitiesIn order to help drinking water and wastewater utilities defend against threats to their systems, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in conjunction with the American Water Works Association (AWWA), and the Water Environment Federation (WEF) have published 2 sets of physical security standard guidelines, one for drinking water facilities and one for wastewater facilities. These standard guidelines have been through the first step of the ANSI accreditation process and are now available for trial use. The standards differ from similar guidance documents released by the three organizations in 2004, because they have been through rigorous committee review and two rounds of balloting. Readers of this email are encouraged to use and share these standard guidelines. This work was funded through an EPA grant. The documents are available for free at: http://www.asce.org/static/1/wise.cfm For additional information please contact Greg Spraul at 202-564-0255. EPA State Revolving Funds Provide Close to $7 billion in Assistance for 2006The Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (SRF) programs have posted updated financial and programmatic information to the EPA web site. The SRFs are EPA’s premier financing programs for wastewater and drinking water infrastructure. EPA provides federal funding to states to capitalize revolving loan funds that provide states with a sustainable source of funding for important public health and environmental projects. In 2006, the CWSRF provided more than $5 billion for wastewater infrastructure, nonpoint source pollution control, and watershed and estuary management water quality projects. Cumulatively the program has provided close to $58 billion since 1988. The DWSRF provided $1.7 billion in 2006 and has cumulatively provided more than $11 billion for drinking water infrastructure projects since 1997. States have also spent more than $800 million for other types of activities that support their drinking water programs. The CWSRF data is available at http://www.epa.gov/owm/cwfinance/cwsrf/cwnims/index.htm. The DWSRF data is available at http://www.epa.gov/safewater/dwsrf/dwnims.html. Water Efficiency FactoidReplacing a pre-1994 toilet with a new high-efficiency model can reduce water used for toilets by at least 60 percent and save about 14 percent of total indoor water use. Savings for a typical household would be more than 10,000 gallons per year-enough to fill a backyard swimming pool! More information about WaterSense: http://www.epa.gov/watersense/ Subscribe to Water HeadlinesPlease 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 Water Headlines listserve: Send an email message, leave the subject line blank, and address it to: In the body of the message write: Subscribe Water Headlines first name last name (Please leave one blank space between each word, do not include any other message, and use your actual name- i.e. Subscribe Water Headlines Robert Jones)
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