• National Wildlife Federation’s Campus Ecology website is easy to search and has a “greening projects” section, with a subsection called “Water & Waste Water Management”; click on this subsection to read about model schools and get contact information: www.nwf.org/campusEcology/dspGreening.cfm• EPA's Sector Strategies Program seeks industry-wide environmental gains through innovative actions taken with a number of manufacturing and service sectors. The Sector Strategies point-of-contact is working with College and University Sector Partners to develop sector-specific approaches to assist in advancing the use of environmental management systems, reduce regulatory performance barriers, and measure environmental progress.
• The New England Regional Water Quality Program is a regional branch of the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) Water Quality Program. The CSREES was authorized under section 406 of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 for an Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants Program. The New England Regional Water Quality Program works to improve water quality management through educational knowledge and extension programming that emerges from a research base. This site provides information about the Program and its focus areas: Agricultural Best Management Practices, Community-Based Watershed Protection, residential Pollution Protection, and Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring.
• The Drinking Water Division (DWD) of the CT Department of Public Health is responsible for the administration of all State and Federal drinking water regulations. The DWD holds EPA primary enforcement powers for the Department of Public Health. This site contains information about the state’s water systems, source water protection, the State Revolving Fund, utility personnel certification, DWD regulations, and the department’s outreach program.
• Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials (NEMO) is an UConn educational program for land use decision makers that addresses the relationship of land use to natural resource protection. The Reducing Runoff site includes information about ways to reduce runoff through use of better construction materials and landscaping practices.
• The DEP Bureau of Water Management administers programs to protect and restore the state’s surface and ground waters and related resources to protect public water supplies, human health, and safety as well as protecting fish and aquatic life, preserving and enhancing water-based recreation and restoring the state’s rivers; promotes pollution prevention and compliance assurance. Included on this site is information about state water regulations, the Clean Water Act, DEP programs, and a Water Conservation Site.
