EPA Releases New Pandemic Resilience Guide for Water and Wastewater Utilities

This week, EPA published the Pandemic Resilience Guide to help drinking water and wastewater utilities become more resilient to pandemics. The guide covers best practices and real-world examples related to pandemic resilience collected from the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “The information in this guide was gathered from a series of 2020/21 state-level virtual workshops conducted for California, Indiana, and New York to facilitate the sharing of initial actions, experiences and lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic among invited drinking water and wastewater utilities and their emergency response partners,” according to EPA. The guide contains four main sections: supply chain issues for cleaning products and personal protective equipment, staffing key positions, returning to work, and communications/information sharing. Read more at EPA.