Events

Climate Change: Nutrient & Sediment Impacts

Virtual

This presentation will cover the development of this modeling work, including how these models will help identify likely drivers of water quality improvement and degradation since the 1990s and highlight what local factors (e.g., soil characteristics, climate) enhance or diminish the loss of nutrients to waterways.

U.S. Hydropower Supply Chain: Gaps and Potential Remedies

Virtual

Join Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm and experts from the Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO), other government agencies, and the hydropower industry to explore gaps facing the U.S. hydropower supply chain along with potential remedies.

Wildfire Impacts on Water Infrastructure

Virtual

This presentation will discuss EPA’s emergency response efforts to the Maui wildfires and ongoing research to further understand contamination of water infrastructure. Research topics include uptake and release of contaminants in hot and cold pipes commonly used in premise plumbing and the effects of hot gasses and smoke on drinking water pipes.

EPA’s Water Security Test Bed: Critical Infrastructure Research

Virtual

This presentation will discuss EPA’s first-of-its-scale Water Security Test Bed (WSTB), which replicates a section of a typical municipal drinking water piping system to better understand the behavior of water systems under real-world conditions.