An Interactive, Online Event for Solving Your Water Quality and Infrastructure Challenges. The new AWWA Virtual Summit focusing on Water Quality and Infrastructure solutions is a 2 1/2-day, fully interactive online event that delivers premier learning and networking opportunities around the latest in water quality, managing aging infrastructure, utility risk and resilience and much more. Secure your virtual seat today. Register early before pr...

Concentrate management is a well-known challenge in treating water with the use of reverse osmosis membranes, particularly for inland facilities. However, some membrane researchers view brine as both a burden and a tool. This webinar explores the advances of managing concentrate through volume reduction and the innovative ways that concentrate is being used to tackle emerging contaminants, such as perflourinated compounds. This webinar offers...

This webinar is an introduction to several models and approaches utilities are currently using to assist low-income customers and the tools the utilities are using to effectively reach low-income communities. These models are presented against the backdrop of “Navigating Legal Pathways to Rate-Funded Customer Assistance Programs.” Although some content could be somewhat similar to the November 2014 webinar titled “Measuring a...

Federal regulatory actions released over the past year that could impact water and wastewater systems will be summarized, with an emphasis on what systems could be doing now to be better prepared. Expected upcoming regulatory actions will also be presented.

The aim of this webinar is to provide comprehensive and useful information to address Perfluorinated Alkyl Substances (PFAS) in drinking water sources. The PFAS occurrence in different geographic areas will be presented, and the current US Environmental Protection Agency health advisory level for Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctanyl Sulfonoate (PFOS), plus anticipated regulations will be discussed. The ongoing research efforts re...

With increased pressure on water supplies, many communities are exploring new strategies, such as potable reuse, to meet future water demands. As to potable reuse, however, countless barriers must be overcome to successfully initiate and execute a project. The obstacles include but aren’t limited to collaboration between separate utilities or distinct departments, public perception, treatment and technology options, finances, and regulat...

Necessary funding for an optimized source water protection program is difficult for most utilities to obtain. The goal of this webinar is to give pointers to water utilities (managers, commissioners, other utility staff) and utility partners on how to set up a permanent source water protection reserve account using a utility’s rate structure. Following is the webinar outline: Source Water Protection Funding Overview. Introduction to sour...

Cross Connection Control programs using containment protection practices reduce the risk to the community from actual or potential contamination; however, internal backflow can occur because of cross connection at the point of use. In this webinar, risks and benefits of containment versus internal isolation programs will be assessed for hazard mitigation, and the responsibilities of both the administrative authority and the water purveyor will...

This webinar is an introduction to the fourth edition of the AWWA Manual of Water Supply Practice M32, Computer Modeling of Distribution Systems. The webinar will provide details of key areas of improvement included in the updated edition as well as an overall review of the manual’s contents; and, information will be presented on how to use the manual. The main goal of the webinar is to publicize the M32 fourth edition as well as present...

Changes in water—supply, quality, utility operations—are one of the primary implications of climate change. However, identifying changes that will occur in any community's water is complicated by the magnitude and layers of uncertainty associated with regionally varying effects of climate change. This webinar will provide participants with an understanding of how to handle climate uncertainty in their planning processes through the...