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Office of Water Releases Final Climate Change Strategy
This National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change provides an overview of the likely effects of climate change on water resources and the nation’s clean water and safe drinking water programs. This final Strategy also describes over 40 specific actions the National Water Program intends to take to adapt program implementation in light of climate change.
- Letter from Benjamin H. Grumbles, Assistant Administrator for Water, to Interested Parties to Announce the Release of the Final National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change (PDF, 1 pp, 92KB)
- Final National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change – September 2008 (PDF, 114 pp, 11,489KB)
Request a printed copy of the strategy.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Water solicited comment on a public review of the draft National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change from March 2008 through June 10, 2008. This draft document represents the National Water Program’s initial effort to identify potential impacts of climate change for clean water and drinking water programs and define actions to respond to these impacts. A March 28, 2008, memorandum signed by the Assistant Administrator for Water requested comments on the draft strategy.
- Request for Comments – Benjamin H. Grumbles – March 28, 2008 (PDF, 1 p, 65K)
- PUBLIC REVIEW DRAFT National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change – March 2008 (PDF, 115 pp, 564K)
EPA Assistant Administrator Grumbles Speeches on Climate Change
- On October 21, 2008, EPA Assistant Administrator Benjamin Grumbles spoke to the WEFTEC Conference on the challenges that a changing climate poses for protection of the health of aquatic ecosystems.
- On May 2, 2008, Benjamin Grumbles spoke to the American Bar Association's 2008 Eastern Water Resources Conference: "Eastern Water Law – A Climate of Change" about EPA's water and climate change strategy.
Archived Version of May 8, 2008. Public Webcast on Strategy
The Office of Water hosted a public Webcast on May 8, 2008, to discuss and answer questions about the draft Strategy. The Webcast highlighted the impacts of a changing climate on water resources and water programs, as well as identified some of the key actions EPA is proposing in the Strategy to respond to these impacts. View the archived Webcast presentation
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Memorandum Creating Office of Water Climate Change Workgroup
A March 1, 2007, memorandum signed by the Assistant Administrator for Water describes the general principles to guide the National Water Program in responding to climate change, proposes the development of a National Water Program strategy on climate change, and announces the formation of a National Water Program Climate Change Workgroup.
- Climate Change and the National Water Program – Benjamin H. Grumbles – March 1, 2007 (PDF, 5 pp, 93KB)
