EPA  Complete Resource Guide for Ground Water and Drinking Water Topics:

For All Ages

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A

• Access Drinking Water Data Online

• Aircraft Drinking Water Rule

• Agricultural Drainage (Class V Injection Well) (PDF) (1 pp, 152K)

• Analytical Methods

• Annual Public Water System Compliance Report

• Aquaculture (Class V Injection Well) (PDF) (1 pp, 157K)

• Aquifer Recharge (AR) & Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR)

• Aquifer Remediation (Class V Injection Well) (PDF) (1 pp, 152K)

• Area-Wide Optimization Program (AWOP)

• Arsenic

 

B

 

• Boil Water Notice

• Bottled Water

 

C

 

• Capacity Development

• Carwashes (Class V Injection Well) (PDF) (1 pp, 154K)

• Careers at Public Water Systems

• Chemical Contaminants

• Chloramines in Drinking Water

• Children and Drinking Water Standards

• Chromium

• Chromium 6 (Hexavalent Chromium)

• Citizen’s Guide to Ground-Water Protection

  • Class 1 Injection Wells

  • Class 2 Injection Wells

  • Class 3 Injection Wells

  • Class 4 Injection Wells

  • Class 5 Injection Wells

  • Class 6 Injection Wells (Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide)

• Climate Change and Water

• Climate Ready Water Utilities (CRWU) Toolbox

• Climate Resilience Evaluation & Awareness Tool (CREAT)

• Coliform

• Community-Based Water Resiliency (CBWR)

• Community Water System

• Community Water System Survey 2000

• Comprehensive State Ground Water Protection Programs

• Consumer Information

• Consumer Confidence Report Rule

• Contaminant Candidate List

  • CCL 1 List and Regulatory Determinations

  • CCL 2 List and Regulatory Determinations

  • CCL 3 List and Regulatory Determinations

  • CCL 4 – Request for Nominations

• Copper

• Cross-connection Control

• Cryptosporidium (PDF) (2 pp, 8K)

• Cryptosporidium Lab QA Evaluation Program

• CUPSS (Check Up Program for Small Systems)

 

D

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• Databases

• Decontamination for the Water Sector

• Disinfection Byproducts

• Distribution Systems

• Drinking Water Academy

• Drinking Water Needs Survey

• Drinking Water Quality Reports (Consumer Confidence Reports)

• Drinking Water Standards

• Drinking Water Research – EPANET

• Drinking Water State Revolving Fund

• Drinking Water Strategy

• Drinking Water Watch

 

E

 

• E. Coli

• Economics

• Emergency Disinfection of Drinking Water

• Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC)

• Emergency Preparedness

• Emergency Response Plan Guidance (PDF) (45 pp, 404K)

• Enforcement

• Environmental Technology Verification Program

• Español

• Exemption

• Experimental (Class V Injection Well) (PDF) (1 pp, 153K)

 

F

 

• Facts & Figures

• Fecal coliform

• Federal Funding for Utilities – Water/Wastewater – in National Disasters (Fed FUNDS)

• Filter Backwash Rule

• Fluoride

• Food Processing Disposal (Class V Injection Well) (PDF) (1 pp, 153K)

• Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

• Frequent Questions

• Funding

 

G

 

• Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide (Class 6 Injection Wells)

• Geothermal Direct Heat Return Flow (Class V Injection Well) (PDF) (1 pp, 155K)

• Geothermal Electric Power (Class V Injection Well) (PDF) (1 pp, 148K)

• Glossary – Drinking Water Glossary

• Ground Water

• Ground Water Rule

 

H

 

• Health Effects

• Health Advisories

• Heat Pump/Air Conditioning Return Flow (Class V Injection Well) (PDF) (1 pp, 157K)

• Hexavalent Chromium (Chromium 6)

• Home Water Filtration (PDF) (7 pp, 1MB)

• Home Water Testing (PDF) (2 pp, 562K)

• Hurricane

• Hydraulic Fracturing

 

I

 

• Indian Tribes

• Industrial & Municipal Waste Disposal Wells (Class I Injection Wells)

• Information Collection Rule

• In-Situ Fossil Fuel Recovery (Class V Injection Well) (PDF) (1 pp, 148K)

• Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule

 

K

 

• Kids

 

L

 

• Laboratory Quality Assurance Evaluation Program for Analysis of Cryptosporidium

• Laboratory Certification

• Large-Capacity Cesspools (Class V Injection Well)

• Large-Capacity Septic Systems (Class V Injection Well)

• Laundromats without dry cleaning facilities (Class V Injection Well)(PDF) (1 pp, 146K)

• Lead and Copper Rule Revisions

• Lead in Drinking Water

• Local Drinking Water Information

• Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule

• Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule

 

M

 

• Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL)

• Mercury

• Methyl Tertiary-Butyl Ether (MtBE)

• Microbials and Disinfection Byproducts

• Microbes

• Mine Backfill (Class V Injection Well) (PDF) (1 pp, 152K)

• Mining Wells (Class III Injection Wells)

• Monitoring

• Motor Vehicle Waste Disposal Wells (Class V Injection Well)

 

N

 

•  National Contaminant Occurrence Database

• National Drinking Water Advisory Council (NDWAC)

• National Drinking Water Advisory Council’s Meeting Summaries

  • Current National Drinking Water Advisory Council Working Groups

  • NDWAC Climate Ready Water Utilities Working Group

  • Past National Drinking Water Advisory Council Working Groups

  • Arsenic Cost Working Group

  • Benefits Working Group

  • Consumer Confidence Rule Working Group

  • Contaminant Candidate List (CCL) Classification Process Working Group

  • Contaminant Candidate List Regulatory Determinations & 6-year Review of Existing Regulations Working Group

  • Drinking Water Research Working Group

  • Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Working Group

  • Health Care Providers Working Group

  • Microbials/Disinfection Byproducts Rules Working Group

  • Occurrence & Contaminant Selection Working Group

  • Operator Certification Working Group

  • Public Education Requirements of the Lead and Copper Rule Working Group

  • Right-to-Know Working Group

  • Small Systems Affordability Working Group

  • Small Systems/Capacity Development

  • Small Systems Implementation Working Group

  • Underground Injection Control/Source Water Working Group

  • Water Security Working Group

• National Incident Management System (NIMS)

• National Primary Drinking Water Regulations

• Natural Gas Extraction (Hydraulic Fracturing)

• Needs Survey – Drinking Water Infrastructure

• Nitrate

• Non-Community Water System

• Noncontact Cooling Water (Class V Injection Well) (PDF) (1 pp, 151K)

 

O

 

• Occurrence & Contaminant Selection

• Occurrence Data: Accessing Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Data

• Oil and Gas Related Wells (Class II Injection Wells)

• Operator Certification

• Optimization Program [Area-Wide Optimization Program (AWOP)]

 

P

 

• Partnership for Safe Water

• Pandemic Flu Planning for the Water Sector

• Perchlorate

• Pharmaceuticals

• Primacy State

• Protect Your Drinking Water: What you Can Do

• Public Input

• Public Notification Rule

• Public Service Announcements

• Public Water System (PWS)

• Publications

 

Q

 

• Quick Reference Guides

 

R

 

• Radon in Drinking Water

• Radionuclides

• Raw Water

• Recent Additions

• Regional EPA Offices

• Regulations

• Research (Risk assessment)

• Research (Water Supply & Water Resources)

 

S

 

• Safe Drinking Water Act

• Safe Drinking Water Hotline

• Safe Drinking Water Information Systems (SDWIS)

• Salt Water Intrusion Barrier (Class V Injection Well) (PDF) (1 pp, 148K)

• Sampling Guide: Interactive Guide to Water Sampling

• Sanitary Survey

• Sewage Treatment Effluent (Class V Injection Well) (PDF) (1 pp, 157K)

• Schools and Child Care Facilities

• Secondary Drinking Water Standards

• Septic Systems: What to do After a Flood

• Shale Gas Extraction (Hydraulic Fracturing)

• Shallow Hazardous and Radioactive Injection Wells (Class IV Injection Wells)

• Shallow Non-Hazardous Injection Wells (Class V Injection Wells)

• Six Year Review of Drinking Water Standards

• Small Systems

• Sodium

• Sole Source Aquifer

• Solution Mining (Class V Injection Well) (PDF) (1 pp, 148K)

• Source Water Assessment and Protection Programs

• Source Water Protection

• Source Water Protection A to Z Topics

• Special Drainage (Class V Injection Well) (PDF) (1 pp, 156K)

• Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule

• Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule

• Spanish

• Spent Brine Return Flow (Class V Injection Well) (PDF) (1 pg, 147K)

• Standards-Setting Program

• Standards and Risk Management

• States

• Storm Water Drainage Wells (Class V Injection Well)

• Subsidence Control (Class V Injection Well) (PDF) (1 pg, 150K)

• Sulfate

• Surf Your Watershed

• Surface Water Treatment Rule

• Sustainable Infrastructure

 

T

 

• Tabletop Exercise Tool for Water Systems (TTX)

• Total Coliform Rule

• Treatment Technology

• Training

• Tribal

 

U

 

• Underground Injection Control Program

  • Class 1 Rule for Underground Injection Wells

  • Class 2 Rule for Underground Injection Wells

  • Class 3 Rule for Underground Injection Wells

  • Class 4 Rule for Underground Injection Wells

  • Class 5 Rule for Underground Injection Wells

  • Class 6 Rule for Underground Injection Wells (Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide)

• Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring (UCM) program

• Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Data – Occurrence Data

• Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule 3 (UCMR 3)

• Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule 2 (UCMR 2)

• Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule 1 (UCMR 1)

• Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring-State Rounds 1 & 2 (1988-1997)

• Usage

• UV Disinfection (PDF) (436 pp, 8MB)

 

V

 

• Variances and Exemptions

• Virtual Tour of a Water Treatment Plant

• Vulnerability Self Assessment Tool (VSAT)

 

W

 

• Wellhead Protection

• Wells (Private Drinking Water Wells)

• Water/Wastewater Agency Response Network (WARN)

• Water Supply Guidance

• Water Security Initiative (WSI)

• Water Security A to Z Topics

• Water Security

• Water on Tap: What You Need to Know

• Watershed Poster

• Water Laboratory Alliance (WLA)

• Water Health and Economic Analysis Tool (WHEAT)

• Water Cycle For Kids

• Water Contaminant Information Tool (WCIT)

• Water Conservation