Small Drinking Water Webinar Series Recap January 5, 2024 By Katelyn McLaughlin Drinking Water, Small System O&M, Small Systems O and M small drinking water system, small drinking water systems webinar series, webinar series 0 EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) and Office of Water (OW), in collaboration with the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators (ASDWA), host this free webinar series to communicate the latest information on solutions for challenges facing small drinking water systems. The series topics vary each month and are primarily designed for state, territory, and tribal staff responsible for drinking water regulations compliance and treatment technologies permitting. We have compiled the webinar recordings that were released in 2023 as part of this series below: Pathogens | February 2023 Presentation 1: Microbial and Disinfection Byproducts (MDBP) Rules Revision Update Presentation 2: Challenges and Perspectives of Studying Water Storage Tank Ecosystems in Distribution Systems Lead and Copper | March 2023 Presentation 1: EPA's Lead Service Line Inventory Guidance Presentation 2: Corrosion Test Methods Manganese | April 2023 Presentation 1: Manganese Interference with Disinfectant Residual Methods Presentation 2: Management of Manganese and Small System Considerations Harmful Algal Blooms and Algal Toxins | May 2023 Presentation 1: HAB Technical Assistance in El Salvador Presentation 2: Cyanobacterial Blooms Dynamics as Determined by Nucleic Acid Based Techniques Bipartisan Infrastructure Law | June 2023 Presentation 1: EPA Water Technical Assistance Opportunities Presentation 2: Supporting the Selection and Implementation of Technologies to Remove PFAS from Drinking Water and from Treatment Residuals Presentation 3: Applied Research and Technical Assistance Project on Lead Service Line Identification Technologies Wildfire Impacts on Drinking Water | July 2023 Presentation 1: Wildfire Implications for Drinking Water Systems Presentation 2: Wildfires Can Increase Drinking Water Contamination: Nitrate, Arsenic, and Disinfection Byproducts Cybersecurity | August 2023 Presentation 1: Tools and Resources to Help Your Small Systems Build Cyber Resilience Presentation 2: Water Distribution System Operational Technology Cybersecurity Research at the Water Security Test Bed Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 5) and a Spotlight Presentation on EPA's Fraud Awareness | October 2023 Presentation 1: Update on the Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 5) Presentation 2: EPA Fraud Awareness Presentation 3: PFAS Drinking Water Methods: Past, Present, and Future Risk, Crisis, and General Communication | November 2023 Presentation 1: Conversations With Customers: What We’ve Learned from Talking with Them Presentation 2: Drinking Water Risk Communication Toolkit Presentation 3: EPA Flint Water Response: Risk Communication Case Study The Small Drinking Water Systems Webinar Series is scheduled to continue in 2024. Some of the subjects that are likely to be featured this year include Lead Service Line Inventory Guidance, PFAS Treatment, Disinfection Byproducts, and many other topics. Comments are closed.