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Prevention and Restoration of Hydrologically Altered Waters

Working across all CWA programmatic lines to identify and restore hydrologically altered waters, as well as preventing future alterations.

Resilience of Water and Wastewater Utilities Through Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation

Building utility resilience before incidents occur through preparedness and mitigation.

Resilience of Water and Wastewater Utilities Through Disaster Response and Recovery

Helping water utilities across the country effectively respond to emergencies that can impact drinking water and wastewater services.

Restoration and Watershed Planning Program

The Restoration and Watershed Planning Program is Identifying polluted waters and developing plans to restore them.

Urban Waters Federal Partnership Program

Through our partnership, the UWFP will revitalize urban waters and the communities that surround them, transforming overlooked assets into treasured centerpieces and drivers of urban revival.

Source Water Protection Program

The Source Water Protection Program supports a wide variety of actions and activities aimed at safeguarding, maintaining, or improving the quality and quantity of sources of drinking water and their contributing areas.

Water Infrastructure and Resiliency Finance Center

WIRFC helps communities make informed decisions around drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure to protect human health and the environment.

Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act Program

WIFIA is accelerating investment in our nation's water infrastructure by providing long-term, low-cost supplemental loans for regionally and nationally significant projects.

Water Laboratory Alliance

The Water Alliance Laboratory supports a nationwide network of laboratories with responding to contamination incidents using lab resources.

WaterSense Program

WaterSense is transforming the marketplace for products and services that use water and promoting a nationwide ethic of water efficiency to help Americans reduce their water use at home, at work, and outdoors.

Wetland Program and Wetland Program Development Grants

The Wetlands Program and WPDG are increasing the quantity and quality of wetlands, streams, and other waters through regulatory and non-regulatory approaches.

Water Quality Monitoring Program

The Water Quality Monitoring Program is exploring and tracking climate signals in water resources.

Water Quality Surveillance and Response System Program

The Water Quality Surveillance and Response System Program offers drinking water systems a framework designed to support the monitoring and management of distribution system water quality, including utility response to emergencies.

State Water Agency Practices for Climate Adaptation

Documents developed by the EPA National Water Program in the past, detailing programmatic efforts to address climate change impacts to water resources.

Office of Water Climate Mitigation Actions

Under existing authorities, the National Water Program can work to mitigate climate change through the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, carbon capture and storage, and carbon dioxide removal.

Office of Water Climate Adaptation Implementation Plan

The Climate Adaptation Implementation Plan includes a range of priority actions that the Office of Water commits to taking in the near-term to advance its climate adaptation agenda across Office of Water’s infrastructure, regulatory, and non-reg programs.