Source Water Protection
Betty Green - VRWA Source Water Protection
Help protect your water sources!
The Rural Water Grassroots Source Water Protection initiative is hard at work in all 50 states across the U.S. The source water program encourages local water and wastewater systems to participate more aggressively in the development and implementation of local and regional source water protection plans. Land use decisions and zoning enforcement are done at the local government level.
Rural Water Source Specialists:
- are well-versed in the steps necessary to design and implement a watershed protection program
- have the confidence and support of local government officials
- work in priority watersheds in every state.
Effective watershed management is most likely to be a bottom-up process, driven largely by citizen concerns about local problems, guided by sound data and information, where local governments assume substantial rights and responsibilities for watershed management.
VRWA's Source Water Protection Specialist
- assists local governments in implementing source water plans within priority watersheds
- brings together multi-jurisdictional watershed entities for a common goal in the prevention of contamination of drinking water supplies
- develops watershed plans, which include the organization of county and watershed-wide interests to initiate (and document) specific land use activities among local governments, business, industry, agriculture, the general public, etc.
- works in conjuction with input from water system personnel and state regulatory agencies.
