Improving America's Drinking Water SystemsMonday, December 29, 2014 - by Water2DrinkWhile many citizens may see the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) as a “watchdog” agency for American waterways, the EPA also researches
ways to improve our national drinking water systems. An EPA news release in September, 2014 announced the #EPA is
providing funding to create “Drinking Water Innovation Centers.” According to the release, “These centers will
help to develop innovative and practical solutions for challenges faced by
smaller drinking water systems, which make up the majority of public water
systems in the United States.”
Of the nation’s approximate 160,000 public water systems,
about 97% of them service fewer than 10,000 people each. These water systems
face many obstacles, such as limited funding, aging structures, and the cost of
complying with new regulations. The
newly funded centers will help bolster these systems’ capacities and
capabilities to provide #water throughout the country.
The recipients of the funding are the University of #Colorado
Boulder’s Design of Risk Reducing, Innovative Implementable Small System
Knowledge (DeRISK) Center, and the University of #Massachusetts Amherst’s Water
Innovation Network for Sustainable Small Systems (WINSSS) Center. “These organizations are leading the way in
developing cutting-edge technologies,” according to the EPA news release. |
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