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WaterNews for April 1, 2005Benjamin Grumbles WaterNews is a weekly on-line publication that announces publications, policies, and activities of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water. In This Week’s WaterNews:
Capital River Relief Effort BeginsAssistant Administrator Benjamin Grumbles participated in the Capital River Relief “Team Up to Clean Up” Earth Day kick-off event on Thursday, March 31, 2005, in Washington, DC. This event begins a month long clean-up along the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers. The kick-off will include environmental groups, businesses, and governmental organizations. For more information please visit www.CapitalRiverRelief.org. Office of Water Launches New Webpage for KidsThe Office of Water has launched a new Kids Page featuring a new character called "Thirstin." This site contains games, activities and narrated/animated classroom experiments. Some of the new activities include an animated water cycle; word scramble; word search; water trivia and "Thirstin's Wacky Water Adventure." Teachers and students can work on-line or download some of the information for classroom use. The new pages are located at http://www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/index.html. For more information please contact Charlene Shaw at 564-4635. Conserving Water at EPAEPA has established an internal goal to reduce its total water consumption by 10 percent by 2010 from its consumption levels in 2000. To help achieve this goal, EPA is assessing water use at several of its facilities and developing Water Management Plans to increase their water efficiency. The Agency has developed water management plans for 11 EPA laboratories and research centers across the country. A focal point of water management plans is Best Management Practices (BMPs) designed to consider all of the various uses of water and maximize conservation. You can learn more about conserving water at your facilities by visiting our web site at http://www.epa.gov/greeningepa/water/. 2005 Stormwater Training SessionsEPA has announced its stormwater training schedule for 2005. “Getting in Step with Phase II: A Workshop for Stormwater Program Managers” will be held in: Lexington, Virginia - April 11, 2005 For more information on these training sessions, please visit www.epa.gov/npdes/stormwater and click on “training.” Subscribe to WaterNewsPlease 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: 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.
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