Build Flood Resilience at Your Water Utility

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Use the Flood Resilience Guide to Protect Your Utility.

With a user-friendly layout, embedded videos, and flood maps to guide you, EPA's Flood Resilience Guide is your one-stop resource to protect your critical assets. Targeted to small and medium drinking water and wastewater utilities.


View the Flood Resilience - Overview video

The "Flood Resilience Guide - Overview" helps small and medium utilities become more resilient to flooding (Runtime 3:57 min).


Explore Additional Flood Resources for Water Utilities

Use EPA's Flood Checklist

The Flood Resilience Checklist, under the Smart Growth Strategies for Disaster Recovery and Resilience program, helps communities develop a comprehensive flood resilience plan. 

Read EPA's Blog

Read about an EPA official’s first-hand account of when flooding really hit home at EPA Connect: Surviving the Flood