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AWWA ACE68969
- UCMR2 - Utility Perspective Balancing Public Health Risk with Customer Expectations
- Conference Proceeding by American Water Works Association, 11/01/2008
- Publisher: AWWA
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This powerpoint presentation begins by providing a brief overview of the challenges facing public utilities. UCMR 2 new challenges are categorized by the following:the Knowns - resource and financial burdensassociated with monitoring; and,the Unknowns - risk communication, public healthbenefits, and treatment impacts. The possibility of source water protection strategiesas an alternative to contaminant control is presented. Presentation conclusions indicate the following:unregulated contaminant monitoring stretches financialresources for utilities even further; utilities face risk communication challenges if they detectthese contaminants in drinking water supply; we need the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency'shelp in developing common effective publiceducation and communication messages that instillconfidence in us and the process; and, a comprehensive source water protection program couldbe a cost effective method for reducing occurrences anddetections. Includes tables.
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