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Questions and Answers Water System Capacity View and print this publication in Acrobat PDF format (67 KB) What is water system capacity? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines water system capacity as:
The three categories of water system capacity are: Technical: The physical system which includes source, treatment, storage, and distribution, plus the ability of water system personnel to adequately operate and maintain the system. Managerial: The ability of the water system’s manager to conduct necessary activities such as staffing, planning, decision-making, maintaining accountability, and interacting with customers and regulatory agencies. Financial: The ability to generate sufficient revenue, maintain credit worthiness, and manage funds through budgeting, accounting, and other methods of fiscal control. What are the benefits for water systems that attain full capacity? What do full capacity water systems look like? Water systems meeting the following conditions are considered to have full capacity. These systems: What can you do to get your water system operating at full capacity? Water systems can use capacity development as a comprehensive tool to help your water system achieve capacity. Systems can also seek out and take advantage of the assistance offered by the Office of Drinking Water as part of "your" capacity development strategy. For example: Apply for Capital Improvement Funding through the DWSRF Loan Program Over $180 million has been committed to help systems achieve or maintain capacity through low interest loans through the DWSRF program. More program information. Attend Relevant Training The Office of Drinking Water is committed to providing training to public water system operators and owners. Proper training is important to developing capacity. We continue to provide training in the following capacity-related topics: Visit our training calendar. Seek out technical assistance offered by the Office of Drinking Water Staff is available to: Regional office staff are available to help. What is the Office of Drinking Water’s capacity strategy? EPA requires states to develop capacity strategies to help drinking water systems improve their finances, management, infrastructure, and operations so they can provide safe drinking water consistently, reliably, and cost-effectively. The capacity development provisions allow states a lot of flexibility in development of their strategy. Two publications, "Water System Capacity Development Strategy for Existing Water Systems" and "Water System Capacity Development Program - Demonstration, Implementation and Evaluation of Authorities to Ensure New System Capacity" are available online (see "related publications" in the right-hand column). For More Information For general capacity-related questions, please contact your regional office:
More information is available on EPA's web site.
December 2004 |
Related Publications Water System Capacity Development Strategy for Existing Water Systems (PDF 147 KB) More publications are available through our on-line publication catalog
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