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New EPA Resource: Connecting Water Utilities and Emergency Management Agencies

The EPA has just produced a guide to how water and wastewater utilities and emergency management agencies (EMAs) can work together to better respond to emergencies. The guide offers six recommended actions, which include building relationships, sharing emergency capabilities, and developing joint messages, among others. Each action is accompanied by a series of steps, resources to assist with implementation, and a case study that demonstrates how a utility worked with its EMA to improve their emergency response capabilities.

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New Website Highlights State Practices for Climate Adaptation

The U.S. EPA has recently released a new webpage showcasing innovative practices of state water agencies to reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts. The new webpage contains short descriptions of select climate adaptation related practices in diverse programmatic areas and geographic locations around the country. These state practices can be a resource for other state agencies, as well as local and tribal governments, seeking to engage in climate adaptation efforts within their own water programs.

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Summary Document of U.S. EPA’s Climate Change Adaptation Tools

U.S. EPA has developed a handout summarizing the tools it has developed for state and local governments and others to adapt their clean water and drinking water programs to a changing climate. The tools include the Storm Surge Inundation and Hurricane Strike Frequency Map, the Workbook for Developing Risk-Based Adaptation Plans, the Flood Resilience Guide for Water and Wastewater Utilities, and the National Stormwater Calculator with Climate Scenarios, among others.

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U.S. EPA National Water Program Releases 2015 Workplan

U.S EPA has just released 2015 Workplan: National Water Program Response to Climate Change, which lays out the actions the National Water Program plans to take this year to implement the EPA National Water Program 2012 Strategy: Response to Climate Change. The 2012 Strategy describes long-term goals for the management of sustainable water resources in light of climate change. It is intended to be a roadmap to guide program planning and inform decision-makers during the Agency's planning and budgeting process.

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U.S. EPA Issues Health Advisory Values for Algal Toxins in Drinking Water

The U.S. EPA has issued health advisory values for algal toxins in tap water that are protective of human health based on the best available science. EPA has also recommended how utilities can monitor and treat drinking water for algal toxins and notify the public if drinking water exceeds protective levels. Health advisories are not regulations, but they provide technical guidance to help state and local officials and managers of water systems protect public health.

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New U.S. EPA Blog: Preparing Communities for the Impacts of Climate Change

The U.S. EPA has set up a new blog that discusses the effects and implications of climate change. Despite the challenges and threats climate change presents, the blog reminds us that there are many actions that can be taken to anticipate, prepare, an adapt. It also discusses the actions U.S. EPA is taking to help states, tribes, and local communities, which includes an online training module it will release to help local government officials take actions to increase their communities’ resilience to climate change.

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EPA Creating an Early Warning System to Detect Harmful Algal Blooms

EPA has announced that it is developing an early warning indicator system using historical and current satellite data to detect algal blooms. EPA researchers will develop a mobile app to inform water quality managers of changes in water quality using satellite data on cyanobacteria algal blooms from three partnering agencies – NASA, NOAA, and the U.S. Geological Survey. The multi-agency project will create a reliable, standard method for identifying cyanobacteria blooms in U.S. freshwater lakes and reservoirs using ocean color satellite data.

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U.S. EPA Releases Storm Surge Inundation Map

U.S. EPA’s Climate Ready Water Utilities Initiative has created the online Storm Surge Inundation Map, an interactive tool that illustrates the current worst-case storm surge and inundation scenarios on the American Gulf and Atlantic Coast, including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The map combines data layers from FEMA 100 and 500 year flood maps as well as NOAA's Sea, Lake, and Overland Surge from Hurricanes (SLOSH) and National Hurricane Center's coastal county hurricane strike maps.

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