Businesses Providing Safe Drinking Water

About the Program

Many small rural business such as convenience stores, restaurants, campgrounds, and mobile home parks provide drinking water to their customers as part of their services. Businesses Providing Safe Drinking Water is a new educational program on source water protection for these small water system operators. The program manual Providing Safe Drinking Water: A Primer for Small Businesses and Organizations provides basic information on source water protection, a site and operations assessment protocol, guidance on developing an action plan to address potential risks, and "leave behind" items that small water system operators can use to educate their customers and employees.