Drinking Water
“Water” refers to potable water (i.e., drinking water), or water that is safe for consumption. Drinking water comes from a variety of sources and is treated to meet state and federal standards for consumption. Ensuring safe and healthy drinking water is regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA establishes maximum contaminant levels for various contaminants. There are nearly 600 community water systems, which provide drinking water to approximately 87% of New Jersey’s population.
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04/15/21How More Accurate Water Utility Reporting Could Increase Federal Funds
Every four years, the EPA conducts the Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey. The goal of this survey is to estimate the projected 20-year financial need of water systems throughout the country. The responses of systems in New Jersey will help to determine how much funding our state receives for drinking water infrastructure improvements. In New Jersey, the NJDEP administers the survey.READ ARTICLE#Community Engagement and Partnerships, #Drinking Water, #Paying for Water InfrastructureSOURCE
Divine Maduakolam, Jersey Water Works Intern and Gary Brune, Senior Policy Manager at New Jersey Future -
04/07/21Will Biden’s spending plan allow NJ to replace all lead water lines?
President Joe Biden proposed $2 trillion infrastructure federal funding package may give New Jersey the funding needed to replace lead service lines.READ ARTICLE#Drinking Water, #LeadOpen NJ Spotlight News in a new tabSOURCE
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03/18/21Survey Update: New Jersey Residents Maintain Clean Drinking Water as Top Environmental Priority
Two public opinion surveys found that respondents’ highest environmental concern was the quality of their drinking water and that ensuring all people have safe drinking water should be a top priority for our governor and Legislature.READ ARTICLE#Community Engagement and Partnerships, #Drinking WaterSOURCE
Kimberley Irby, Policy Analyst, New Jersey Future -
03/10/21Jersey WaterCheck: A tool to help you be informed about your water system
Jersey Water Works created Jersey WaterCheck to support the goal of solving New Jersey’s water infrastructure challenges using information.READ ARTICLE#Data, #Drinking Water, #LeadSOURCE
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01/28/21Conference Highlights: Racial Equity, Collaboration, and Resilience as Themes
The sixth annual Jersey Water Works Conference brought together a record-breaking 355 stakeholders and 29 speakers over 11 sessions to share the latest ideas on water funding, CSOs, transparency and data, water workforce, water equity and resilience, and more. This is the first blog post of two recapping the December 9-11 event.READ ARTICLE#Drinking Water, #Green Infrastructure/Stormwater Management, #Smart CSO Control PlansSOURCE
Paula Figueroa-Vega and Lauren Belsky, Jersey Water Works Backbone Staff
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07/02/18Putting children first: Tackling lead in water in child care facilities
Addressing lead in water in child care facilities presents a significant opportunity to reduce lead exposure for many vulnerable children in a single location, with reasonable effort. To succeed in testing and remediating lead in water, child care facility operators, state licensing agencies, and health departments will need support from EPA, water utilities, and NSF International, as well as the families they serve. This report, Putting ...LEARN MORE#Drinking Water,#Lead -
04/27/18Mainstreaming Potable Water Reuse in the United States: Strategies for Leveling the Playing Field
This report Mainstreaming Potable Water Reuse in the United States: Strategies for Leveling the Playing Field, by the EPA , ReNEWIt and The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread, is intended to inform the broader dialogue about water reuse through a specific focus on potable reuse. The goals are to help municipalities and utilities that are considering potable reuse develop their approach and to help advance the efforts of those who are ready to ...LEARN MORE#Drinking Water,#Wastewater -
04/10/18New Jersey Lead Poisoning Prevention Action Plan
The analysis and recommendations contained in the 2018 New Jersey Lead Poisoning Prevention Action Plan provide a comprehensive framework for action steps that can be undertaken by the state, local agencies and other prevention partners to fully eliminate childhood lead poisoning within ten years in New Jersey. These strategies focus on the causal sources of environmental lead exposure, support improvements to services to mitigate the impact of ...LEARN MORE#Drinking Water,#Lead -
01/24/18Joint Legislative Task Force on Drinking Water Infrastructure’s Final Report
The Joint Legislative Task Force on Drinking Water Infrastructure convened on Jan. 8, 2018, and voted unanimously to adopt the findings and recommendations in its report. In response to concerns over the condition of the State’s drinking water infrastructure, on Jun. 30, 2016 the Legislature passed Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 86 and Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 161, establishing the Joint Legislative Task Force on Drinking Water ...LEARN MORE#Affordability,#Drinking Water,#Lead,#Smart CSO Control Plans -
12/18/17Our Water Transformed: An Action Agenda for New Jersey’s Water Infrastructure
The report, Our Water Transformed: An Action Agenda for New Jersey's Water Infrastructure, offers an in-depth understanding of the state’s water infrastructure and the context for improvement, provides clarity on how Jersey Water Works has brought so many stakeholders together to affect change, and outlines a consensus-based “action agenda” with three practical solutions: Robust asset management to enable water utilities to deliver the optimum ...LEARN MORE#Drinking Water,#Green Infrastructure/Stormwater Management,#Paying for Water Infrastructure,#Smart CSO Control Plans,#Wastewater,#WorkforcePRODUCT OF
