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AWWA WSC69995
- Emergency Water Supply: Developing a National Strategic Plan
- Conference Proceeding by American Water Works Association, 11/01/2009
- Publisher: AWWA
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This powerpoint presentation begins by presenting project objectives which were to provide guidance to assist utilities in their strategic planning,particularly in addressing emergency preparedness fora water outage.Formal deliverables included:developing a Drinking Water Utility Action Plan forProviding Emergency Water Supply (Utility ActionPlan); and,Emergency Water Supply Guidance recommendedstrategy for federal/state agencies based oncritical planning logistical needs of the water sectorunder the National Response Framework. A brief overview of the National ResponseFramework is provided, and the process for developing a Utility Emergency Supply Plan(UESP) is presented and includes: assess vulnerability and potential scale of outage;determine target level of service post-event(quantity and quality); analyze drinking water alternatives and developplan; and,implement plan.