Source Water Collaborative

EPA and other national organizations with an interest in safe drinking water have committed to work together on source water protection. The collaborative members include:

• Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies
• The American Planning Association
• Association of State Drinking Water Administrators
• Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators
• American Water Works Association
• The Clean Water Fund
• Environmental Finance Centers
• The Environmental Protection Agency
• Farm Service Agency
• The Groundwater Foundation
• The Ground Water Protection Council
• National Association of Counties
• The National Ground Water Association
• North American Lake Management Society
• National Rural Water Association
• River Network
• U.S. Geological Survey
• Trust for Public Land

How We Intend to Work: The members of the collaborative have agreed to do the following:

• Share information
• Development recommendations together on source water protection
• Package and disseminate these recommendations

Goals and objectives: The source water collaborative will encourage actions that:

• Contain or prevent contamination
• Promote development patterns that limit threats to drinking water sources
• Encourage matching uses of land with locations least likely to affect drinking water sources; and
• Preserve the land needed to protect the quality of current and future sources of drinking water

Vision Statement: Source Water Collaborative - United to Protect America's Sources of Drinking Water (PDF 2 pp, 143 K)

Source Water Collaborative- Contains links to all of the member websites, announcements, meeting minutes and progress reports