Following an emergency event, communities need access to clean water for drinking, cooking, cleaning, showering, laundry, and medical triage. EPA partnered with WaterStep to develop a modular, mobile water treatment system known as Water on Wheels – Emergency Mobile Water Treatment System (WOW Cart). The WOW Cart has deployed in response to hurricanes, tornadoes, multi-county flooding, and decontamination of dam and levee pressure relief wells. Additionally, WOW Carts were sent to Ukraine, multiple state prisons to improve sustainability, ruggedized for military specifications including arctic conditions, and provide remote monitoring data transmission.

This webinar will present proposed capability expansion of WOW Cart to address the removal of heavy metals, brackish water, and pre-treat extremely poor raw water sources. It will discuss future deployments to integrate the WOW Cart into a packaged greywater reuse system and for use at fire fighting camps. Dave Carney, with Kentucky’s Healthcare Coalitions, will discuss the integration of the WOW Cart into their Emergency Response Plan and the use of the ‘Lily Pad Concept’ to pre-deploy multiple WOW Carts across the State.