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CEE/EHS 597B - Potable Water for Small and Disadvantaged Communities

Readings (both required and optional or supplemental)

 

Overview of Treatment Technologies (9/11)

• Short summaries: RCAP, 2011 (required); AWWA, 1984

• Full descriptions: NAS, 1997

• Full descriptions written for operators by OWP (2009): All except disinfection (Part 1, Part 2); Disinfection (Part 1, Part 2)
• Focus on low income countries: Skinner, 2003, Mihelcic et al., 2009

Pathogens and Waterborne Disease (9/20)

• Required Reading: Hrudey & Hrudey, 2004: Walkerton Case Study
• Optional: Hrudey & Hrudey, 2004: Introduction, Barriers for Pathogen Control, General Summary and Conclusions
• Walkerton videos: Incident - 20 min, WCWC tour - 7 min

Wells and Groundwater (9/25)

• Full descriptions written for operators by OWP (2009): Nomenclature, Wells Part 1, Wells Part 2, Wells Part 3, Wells Part 4, Wells Appendix
• Shorter description for managers: AWWA, 1984
• Technologies for low income countries: Skinner, 2003

Economics (9/27)

• Required Reading: EPA Document on Water and Wastewater Pricing; Rate setting - San Antonio
• Optional: Tools for Financing; Water Rates, Fees, Charges (UMass Access for EBook - have to log on via Umass Library)

Regulations (10/2)

• US EPA: National DW Regulations, Drinking Water Act Regulations, RTCR details for small systems
• MA DEP: MA Testing Requirements
• Other: RCAPs regs for Board Members,

Institutions (10/4)

• World Bank (2006): Characteristics of Well-Performing Water Utilities
• Savedoff and Spiller IAD report (1999) Institutional Commitment: Chapter 1

WQ in Distribution Systems + Sanitary Surveys (10/11)

• Required Reading: Preparing for a Sanitary Survey, MA DEP, 2006
• EPA, 2008: WQ in Distribution Systems for Operators

Case Studies + Assessing Capacity (10/16)

• Required Reading: refer to email

Environmental Justice (10/18)

• Required Reading: Balazs & Ray, 2014, Konisky, 2009
• Supplementary reading: Ranganathan & Balazs, 2017

Issues with Tribal Systems (10/23)

• Required Reading: none
• Supplementary reading: Message Runner, 2002

Special Treatment Issues: DBPs (10/25)

• Required Reading: pg 1-27 in: Reckhow & Singer, 2011
• Supplementary reading: remainder in: Reckhow & Singer, 2011

Source Water Protection (10/30)

• Required Reading: SWP material on EPA website
• Supplementary reading:

Special Treatment Issues: Mn (11/1)

• Required Reading: Tobiason et al., 2016
• Supplementary reading:

Plant operations and Northampton WTF (11/6)

• Required Reading:Northampton's Water Management Act Permit (see: UMass website for Northampton Water)
• Supplementary reading: slide show and other resources on the above site.

Data Flows, Information and Communication Technologies (12/4)

• Required Reading: Rivett, Champanis and Wilson-Jones (2013). “Monitoring drinking water quality in South Africa: Designing information systems for local needs.”

 

 

Additional background: In the US, there are about 150,000 public drinking water systems, of these 50,000 are considered community water systems.  The vast majority of these systems are small (serving less than 3,300 people), underfunded, under staffed and experience almost daily challenges to meet the needs of their customers, and the regulatory agencies.  This creates new underserved populations in communities that are often already disadvantaged; a situation that raises serious environmental justice concerns.  Solving these problems requires a concerted effort by interdisciplinary teams including social scientists, engineers, political scientists, public health scientists, chemists and economists.

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