Researchers from three universities have authored a publication describing the events leading up to the current water shortage on the Colorado River and offering a new perspective on what is needed to stabilize or reverse the situation.
Thanks to a comprehensive update to NOAA’s Billion Dollar Disasters mapping tool, many users can now access local community-level information on hazard risk, exposure, and vulnerability across more than 100 combinations of weather and climate hazards.
EPA has published six case studies on water and wastewater utilities, of varying sizes, across the U.S. that have experienced and addressed supply chain challenges.
EPA has updated its Water Contaminant Information Tool (WCIT) and added a new contaminant profile. WCIT, which was created in 2005, is a secure, online database that provides support to the water sector in its emergency preparedness and response activities by offering information on contaminants of concern to the sector. The updated database implements a responsive design that improves mobile device accessibility.
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.
This week the Biden Administration launched Heat.gov, a new website intended to provide the public and decision-makers with information to understand and reduce the health risks of extreme heat.
To help inform its members and other sector stakeholders of critical supply chain issues, WaterISAC is participating in a new program set up by EPA that provides a forum for sharing and discussing this information. Organizations that report supply chain issues to WaterISAC have the option of contributing their information to this process, with WaterISAC’s normal information sharing protocols remaining in effect.
Water supplies are set to increasingly fluctuate and become more difficult to predict in snow-dominated regions across the Northern Hemisphere later on in the century if warming temperature trends due to climate change persist, according to new research.
EPA recently published a Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Resources for Drinking Water webpage, which highlights resources designed to help states and water systems with the implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) that was enacted late last year.
Every summer, algal blooms occur in major lakes and bays disrupting human activity and at times affecting drinking water supplies. Although a federal interagency working group is charged with helping manage the risks of harmful algal blooms, a June report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded it has failed to establish a national program to address these issues.
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