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America's Water Infrastructure Act: Considerations for Small Systems
Author(s) -
Strother Britta
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
opflow
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1551-8701
pISSN - 0149-8029
DOI - 10.1002/opfl.1452
Subject(s) - resilience (materials science) , water infrastructure , plan (archaeology) , critical infrastructure , business , emergency planning , risk analysis (engineering) , emergency response , environmental planning , emergency management , computer science , environmental resource management , computer security , water supply , engineering , political science , medical emergency , environmental science , geography , medicine , law , environmental engineering , physics , archaeology , thermodynamics
America's Water Infrastructure Act (AWIA) of 2018 serves as a catalyst for utilities to evaluate their resilience to risk and to create emergency plans for responding to any unfortunate situations. AWIA gives utilities significant latitude for how they respond but requires small utilities to create a risk and resilience assessment by June 30, 2021, and an emergency response plan by Dec. 30, 2021.