From JARA.POPINGA at dhsoha.state.or.us Thu Jul 27 12:18:03 2017 From: JARA.POPINGA at dhsoha.state.or.us (Popinga Jara) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 19:18:03 +0000 Subject: [Oregon_dwsp] Closing the Water Quality Gap Message-ID: <24fe8624785f4a229744da679a99aa5e@WPOHAEXCL02.dhs.sdc.pvt> Oregon Domestic Well Safety Program Oregon was featured in, Closing the Water Quality Gap: Using policy to improve drinking water in federally-unregulated drinking water systems. ChangeLab Solutions developed this fact sheet for state and local health department staff who want to understand how state and local policy can be used, in addition to outreach and education, to ensure access to safe drinking water for people who use private wells. * Click here to access the fact sheet. * Visit ChangeLab Solutions website for more information: http://www.changelabsolutions.org/publications/water-quality [cid:image002.jpg at 01D306D2.64DA8E20]Closing the Water Quality Gap Using policy to improve drinking water in federally-unregulated drinking water systems The federal Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) regulates the nation's public drinking water supply, safeguarding drinking water for the majority of US residents. However, the SDWA does not apply to all drinking water sources. Privately owned wells serve approximately 12% of the US population, or 34 million residents. These smaller water systems do not meet the federal definition of a public water system and therefore are not regulated by federal law. Sincerely, Domestic Well Safety Program [cid:image006.jpg at 01D306D2.64DA8E20] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 150147 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 8773 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image006.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 4964 bytes Desc: image006.jpg URL: