National Water Program Strategy
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water has made available for comment a public review draft of the National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change. This draft document represents the National Water Program's initial effort to identify potential impacts of climate change for clean water and drinking water programs and define actions to respond to these impacts. A March 28, 2008, memorandum signed by the Assistant Administrator for Water requests comments on the draft strategy.
- Request for Comments Benjamin H. Grumbles March 28, 2008 (PDF, 1 p, 65K)
- PUBLIC REVIEW DRAFT National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change March 2008 (PDF, 115 pp, 564K)
Please submit comments to the following e-mail address: Water_Climate_Change@epa.gov by May 27, 2008. You also can mail your comments to the following address:
Attention: National Water Program Draft Climate Change Strategy
U.S. EPA, Office of Water
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Mail Code: 4101M, Washington, DC 20460
On Thursday, May 8, from 2:30 to 4:30 pm EDT, the Office of Water will host a Webcast to discuss and answer questions about this draft Strategy. The Webcast will highlight the impacts of a changing climate on water resources and water programs, as well as identify some of the key actions EPA is proposing in the Strategy to respond to these impacts. Register for this Webcast. 
A March 1, 2007, memorandum signed by the Assistant Administrator for Water describes the general principles to guide the National Water Program in responding to climate change, proposes the development of a National Water Program strategy on climate change, and announces the formation of a National Water Program Climate Change Workgroup.
- Climate Change and the National Water Program Benjamin H. Grumbles March 1, 2007 (PDF, 5 pp, 93K)
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