Research Areas

• Provide timely and appropriate information that will contribute to small system management schemes for reducing Safe Drinking Water Act violations and public health risks
• Design research that will drive new technologies and improve existing technologies in order to reduce costs and increase operational simplicity

With a regulatory focus on noncompliance and preventing contamination, EPA assists small systems by providing research results and tools in the following areas:

• Distribution systems
  • Repair and rehabilitation of aging water infrastructure
  • Operational concerns
  • Contamination vulnerabilities
• Small system contaminants
• Treatment technologies
  • Particulate and turbidity removal
  • Chemical contaminant removal (sorption, ion exchange)
  • Biological contaminant removal (disinfection)
  • Design and cost considerations
• Water reuse
• Waste residuals
• Small system security