Small Drinking Water and Wastewater Systems Research
Many small public water systems – those serving fewer than 10,000 people – face unique financial and operational challenges. Because of those unique challenges, EPA provides financial and technical resources communities need to provide safe water now and into the future. EPA researchers continue to develop and evaluate cost-effective and novel technologies that can help small water systems meet EPA standards. Communities and their state primacy agencies are reluctant to use novel approaches that haven’t been in operation elsewhere. EPA researchers develop and demonstrate treatment technologies and approaches so that communities and state primacy agencies can be assured that they will be successful in removing contaminants of interest, without compromising the overall sustainability of their system. EPA researchers are developing tools, technologies and methods for both small drinking water and wastewater systems.