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Building Relationships with Interdependent Sectors
Actions to enhance the relationship between your utility and your community include:
  • Identify critical services and businesses that rely on drinking water and/or wastewater services
  • Identify potential steps for reducing risks in the event of service interruptions
  • Promote the inclusion of water utilities into emergency response and preparedness planning
To learn more about building relationships with interdependent sectors, visit EPA's Community-Based Water Resiliency (CBWR) Website and see A Day Without Water: A video introduction to the CBWR Tool Exit Disclaimer.

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Everyday communities rely on drinking water and wastewater services. Water utilities also rely on other community partners such as power and transportation to maintain daily operations. These relationships are called interdependencies.

Your utility plays an important part of the ability of the community to rebound from emergencies. Therefore, you need to educate your response partners and ensure that you fully integrate into the local emergency planning processes.

EPA's Community-Based Water Resiliency tool helps you to build relationships and implement a water resiliency program in your community.
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