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  2. Water privatization in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The largest private water utilities have fewer EPA violations, fines, or work orders when it comes to compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act. An American Water Intelligence analysis of EPA data from 2001 to 2011 shows that NAWC members had 0.09 EPA enforcement actions per 1 million customers, while all other water operators had 30.03 EPA ...

  3. Decentralized wastewater system - Wikipedia

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    A case study of a decentralized wastewater system at on-site level with treated effluent reuse was performed at the Botswana Technology Centre in Gaborone, Botswana. [22] It is an example of a decentralized wastewater system, which serves one institutional building, located in an area served by municipal sewerage.

  4. Integrated urban water management - Wikipedia

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    An example of IUWM is the Catskill/ Delaware water system that provides 1.4 billion US gallons (5,300,000 m 3) of water per day, including to all of New York City. The IUWM process included an extensive stakeholder engagement process, whereby the needs of all parties were included into the final management plan.

  5. Water supply network - Wikipedia

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    Connections to the sewers (underground pipes, or aboveground ditches in some developing countries) are generally found downstream of the water consumers, but the sewer system is considered to be a separate system, rather than part of the water supply system. Water supply networks are often run by public utilities of the water industry.

  6. Category : Water supply and sanitation in the United States

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    Water banking; Nonresidential water use in the U.S. Residential water use in the U.S. and Canada; Water contamination in Crestwood, Illinois; Water privatization in the United States; Water Quality Association; Water service contract; Water wars in Florida; Wellhead protection area; Wellhead protection program; Wisconsin v. Illinois

  7. Decentralised system - Wikipedia

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    A decentralised system in systems theory is a system in which lower level components operate on local information to accomplish global goals. The global pattern of behaviour is an emergent property of dynamical mechanisms that act upon local components, such as indirect communication, rather than the result of a central ordering influence of a ...

  8. Opinion: America’s small-town water systems are ... - AOL

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    Many water facilities lack the financial and workforce capacity to even prioritize and act on information about threats, let alone build defensible systems. If we really want to help water ...

  9. California State Water Project - Wikipedia

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    The Department of Water Resources formed the State-Federal Interagency Task Force with the Bureau of Reclamation and the Army Corps of Engineers to develop plans for developing the rivers in the name of flood control – which would, incidentally, provide a way to divert some of their water into the SWP system. [50]