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WaterNews for November 8, 2001WaterNews is a weekly on-line publication that announces publications, policies, and activities of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water.
Inside this week's WaterNews: 1) EPA Sponsors Training Sessions for Drinking Water Utilities
2) EPA Releases Recommendations from the National Watershed Forum 1) EPA Sponsors Training Sessions for Drinking Water UtilitiesEPA, in conjunction with the American Water Works Association (AWWA), is sponsoring seven general information security training sessions on counter-terrorism for general managers, superintendents, and other management personnel at drinking water utilities. The main focus of the training is on potable water systems, however, wastewater and tribal system representatives are encouraged to attend. The training sessions will be held in November and December 2001 and January 2002. To register, visit AWWA’s web-site at www.awwa.org or send a fax to 393-794-8915. For those unable to attend these sessions, AWWA will offer a web-cast in December 2001 and an on-line training course in February of 2002. 2) EPA Releases Recommendations from the National Watershed ForumEPA released recommendations from the National Watershed Forum held June 28 - June 30, 2001. The National Watershed Forum, designed to give voice to geographically, politically, and culturally diverse organizations interested in protecting and restoring aquatic resources through geographically-based partnerships, was attended by nearly 500 delegates. Key issues addressed in the recommendations report include: managing monitoring data and other information; protecting source water; implementing total maximum daily loads; protecting endangered species and habitat; planning for watershed protection; funding watershed projects; and education and outreach. For a copy of the report, please visit http://www.epa.gov/owow/forum/ on the Internet. **************************************************************** Please forward this message to your friends and colleagues who share an interest in water-related issues and would like to hear from EPA's Office of Water. To subscribe to the WaterNews listserve: * Send an email message, leave the subject line blank, and address it to: waternews-join@lists.epa.gov * In the body of the message write: Subscribe WaterNews firstname lastname (Please leave one blank space between each word, do not include any other message, and use your actual name- i.e. Subscribe WaterNews Robert Jones) A welcome message will appear in your email box once you are officially subscribed. WaterNews will be sent to you at the end of each week. If you encounter difficulties subscribing to this list server or if you would like to be taken off the WaterNews list server at any time, please send your E-mail address to Gloria Posey at Posey.Gloria@epa.gov.
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