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The Safe Drinking Water Act
42 US Code §300f, Adopted 1974by: United States Environmental Protection AgencyThe Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) protects public drinking water supplies throughout the nation to ensure the safety of public health. It authorizes EPA to set standards regarding water quality protection, wastewater management, water supply, and nationwide wellhead protection programs. -
Parachute, CO, Municipal Code
Adopted 2004This town's code creates a watershed district to protect the town’s waterworks and water supply. It establishes prohibited activities and permit requirements within the district. -
Port Wentworth, GA, Code of Ordinances
Updated August 2021Port Wentworth’s code ensures the provision of a safe and sanitary drinking water supply for the city through establishment of wellhead protection zones surrounding the wellheads for all wells which supply the city water system. -
Auburn, GA, Zoning Code
Updated February 2022This City's code establishes a groundwater recharge area district an an overlay zone with groundwater protection standards and requirements. -
Ontario, CA, Municipal Code
Amended January 2022This City’s code establishes requirements, rules and regulations for the development and operation of recycled water facilities and systems within the City's service area. -
Woodland, CA, Code of Ordinances
Updated September 2022The City’s ordinance provides requirements for discharges and wastewater management pertaining to the water pollution control facility (WPCF). -
Kearny County, KS, Environmental Code
Updated September 2014This county code provides standards for the location, design, construction, maintenance, waste disposal and use of on-site wastewater systems in the county. -
Castle Rock, CO, Water Master Plan
2017This town’s functional plan addresses the planning process for expansion and optimization of the water system to meet the water needs of the community. -
Integrated Water Quality Resource Management
January 2022This web page explores key elements of Integrated Water Resource Management. -
Integrated and Adaptive Management of Water Resources: Tensions, Legacies, and the Next Best Thing
Ecology & Society, 16(1), 2011by: Nathan Engle, Owens Johns, Maria Carmen LemosThis article acknowledges the difficulty of using the integrated water resources management framework in practice due to the lack of quantitative data on its success. -
Integrated Water Resources Management: What is it and Why is it used?
June 2013by: Chris WhiteThis blog post discusses how integrated water resources management should be used due to the interdisciplinary nature of water issues. -
Integrated Planning for Municipal Stormwater and Wastewater
March 2023This web page contains an overview of integrated planning for stormwater and wastewater and how it aligns with the requirements of the Clean Water Act. -
Stakeholder Perspectives: Recommendations for Sustaining and Strengthening Integrated Regional Water Management
March 2017This report provides insight on ways to strengthen and sustain regional water management, focusing on collaboration with stakeholders. -
Colorado Springs, CO, Integrated Water Resources Plan
February 2017This functional plan provides comprehensive strategies for water resource planning. -
Integrated Regional Water Management Policy Principles
August 2019This briefing paper outlines the new policy principles on Integrated Regional Water Management created by the Association of California Water Agencies. -
The Economics of Water
September 2021by: Georg Meran, Markus Siehlow, Christain von HirschhausenThis book introduces economic approaches to water scarcity and water management, including a chapter on integrated water resource management. -
Los Angeles, CA, One Water LA 2040 Plan
April 2018This city’s functional plan creates a collaborative approach to planning and managing all the water resources, regardless of the water type. -
Denver, CO, Denver One Water Plan
September 2021This city’s functional plan provides a framework for creating and implementing holistic water management strategies. -
Utah Growing Water Smart: The Water Guide
2022This guide provides resources for water management and land use planning. -
Water Wise: Strategies for Drought-Resilient Development
June 2022by: Marianne Eppig, Mariane Jang, Emily ZhangThis report provides strategies and best practices for water-smart development and landscaping that can address water scarcity. -
Broward County, FL, Resilient Shorelines
June 2020This fact sheet describes living shoreline options to protect coastal communities from flooding in Broward County, Florida, in alignment with a recent land use policy that aims to improve community resilience in tidally-influenced coastal areas. -
Integrating Land Use and Water Management
February 2022by: Erin Rugland, AICPThis report highlights best management practices for integrating water providers and local governments in order to make better land use decisions. -
Belmont, CA, Code of Ordinances
Updated February 2022This City's ordinance promotes water conservation measures, consistent with a comfortable standard of living and a healthy economy, and enabled through timely implementation practices. -
Frederick, MD, Code of Ordinances
Updated February 2023This regulation belongs to the Age-Friendly Communities and Integrated Water Resource Management collections. -
Mainstreaming Potable Water Reuse in the United States: Strategies for Leveling the Playing Field
April 2018This report discusses strategies aimed at helping municipalities and utilities in overcoming institutional barriers and create successful frameworks for implementation of potable reuse of treated wastewater. -
One Water Webinar: Accelerating Innovation in the Water Sector
December 2016by: Al Cho, Karen PallanschIn this webinar, speakers from the water industry discuss the challenges they faced in undertaking new ideas and technological innovations. -
Advancing One Water in Texas
February 2018by: Carol Howe, Rachel CardoneThis report teaches how advocates can advance a viable shift in Texas towards One Water. -
Advice Worth Drinking: How Today’s Land Use Decisions Can protect Tomorrow’s Water Supply
May 2017This guide discusses the integration of source water protection into regular planning activities, from visioning to zoning, to provide sustainable sources of drinking water. -
Integrated Water Management – What Is It and How Can It Benefit Your Community and River?
August 2016by: Theresa Connor, Lynn BroaddusThis webinar provides a detailed overview of Integrated Water Management. -
Austin, TX, Water Forward: Integrated Water Resource Plan
November 2018This city’s functional plan creates a long-term integrated water resource plan. -
Westmoreland County Integrated Water Resources Plan
July 2019This county’s functional plan includes best practices for water resource conservation management for urban planners, officials, and residents. -
Sugar Land, TX, Integrated Water Resources Plan
March 2019This functional plan acts as an integrated water resource plan to address many water supply and demand management options. -
Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, Water Resources Management Plan
December 2022This functional plan creates an integrated water resource management plan that combines water supply and conservation, wastewater management, and watershed management strategies. -
Surprise, AZ, Integrated Water Master Plan
Adopted 2022This plan provides a long-term guidance document for the orderly improvement and growth of Surprise’s water supply portfolio and drinking water, wastewater, reclaimed water, and groundwater recharge infrastructure. -
Pomona, CA, Integrated Water Supply Plan
Adopted 2011This plan addresses potable and non-potable water demand of Pomona through 2035 and aims to meet the State of California's water challenges. -
Colorado Water Plan
Updated January 2023This plan articulates collaborative, balanced solutions to Colorado’s water challenges. -
A Practical Guide to Implementing Integrated Water Resources Management & the Role of Green Infrastructure
May 2016This guide aims to help municipalities with the creation and implementation of integrated water resource management. -
Guide to Climate-Smart and Water-Wise Cities
Policy Brief, March 2023by: Malin Ingemarsson, Jakob Schabus, Maria SkoldThis briefing paper highlights the threat that cities in the 21st century are currently facing due to climate change and the impact it is having on water management. -
Incorporating Water into Comprehensive Planning
February 2020by: Erin Rugland, AICPThis guide provides insight on how land use planners can create comprehensive plans that ensure there is enough water for all residents of the Colorado River Basin. -
Culpeper County, VA, Code of Ordinances
Updated September 2021This county's code of ordinance belongs to the Farmland Protection and Integrated Water Resource Management collections -
Low Impact Development: A Guidebook for North Carolina
June 2009by: Christy Perrin, Lee-Anne Milburn, Laura SzpirThis guide provides technical and policy recommendations for implementing low-impact development (LID). -
San Diego, CA, Municipal Code
Updated February 2020This regulation belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Food Trucks, Historic Preservation, Housing Supply Planning, Inclusionary Housing, Integrated Water Resource Management, Outdoor Lighting, Solar Energy, Urban Livestock, and Wildland-Urban Interface collections. -
Colorado Water Conservation Act of 2004
HB04-1365, Adopted 2004by: State of ColoradoAccording to Colorado’s Water Conservation Act of 2004, specific entities are required to have a water efficiency plan developed as per requirements and approved by the Colorado Water Conservation Board. -
Fairfax County, VA, Code of Ordinances
Updated November 2024This county’s codified ordinances belongs to the Integrated Water Resource Management, Shared Mobility, and Tree Preservation and Urban Forest collections. -
Planners and Water
PAS Report 588by: William Cesanek, AICP, Vicki Elmer, Jennifer Graeff, AICPOne Water is a model that wants to sweep away the old silos of water planning. This PAS Report gives planners new tools to look at water supply, water quality, and stormwater as a single resource to manage.List price$25.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
Overlay Zoning for Source Water Protection
Zoning Practice — July 2020by: Matthew AllenThis issue of Zoning Practice answers a series of questions toward the goal of forwarding an understanding of how land-use regulation — particularly zoning — can and should be used for source water protection.List price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Emerging Trends in Regional Planning
PAS Report 586by: Rocky Piro, FAICP, Robert Leiter, FAICP, Sharon Rooney, AICPToday’s planning issues don’t respect boundaries. Rising tides don’t stop at the county line. Transit systems roll from city to city. Jobs and housing are joined at the hip. This PAS Report offers real-world answers to the regional quandaries planners face.List price$25.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
Facing Water-Based Challenges with Sustainable Development Codes
Zoning Practice — August 2019by: Jonathan RosenbloomThis issue of Zoning Practice discusses how development codes encourage gray infrastructure that increase the impacts of water-related hazards such as flood and drought, and outlines a variety of strategies and code revisions to help address these challenges.List price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Collaborating on Water and Planning: A Perspective for Planners
PAS Memo — May-June 2018by: Vicki Elmer, Carol Howe, Philip Stoker, Gary PivoThe May/June 2018 issue of PAS Memo explores the many ways in which planners can collaborate with water professionals in the water supply, wastewater, and stormwater fields to solve problems and better manage this vital resource.List Price$10.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
Planning and Drought
PAS Report 574by: James Schwab, FAICPDroughts often catch communities unprepared. This PAS Report helps planners, public agencies, and local officials see the crisis on the horizon and get ready to meet it.List Price$25.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00