Catalog of Environmental Programs 2012
| Federal agencies that contribute to EPA's environmental goals, and how they make a difference. |
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Programs by EPA Strategic Goal 1. Climate Change and Improving Air Quality 2. Protecting America's Waters 3. Cleaning Up and Sustainable Development 4. Safety of Chemicals and Preventing Pollution |
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Department of Health and Human Services |
EPA Goal 2: Protecting America’s Waters |
Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Program
Purpose
CDC’s global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) program provides expertise and interventions
aimed at saving lives and reducing illness by improving global access to healthy and safe
water, adequate sanitation, and improved hygiene. The WASH program works on long-term
prevention and control measures for improving health, reducing poverty, and
improving socio-economic development as well as responding to global emergencies
and outbreaks of life-threatening illnesses. These improvements reduce the
lethal impact of WASH-related diseases ranging from cholera to typhoid fever
to hepatitis. The WASH program is focused in six areas: (1) making water safe
to drink and use, (2) improving hygiene and sanitation, (3) responding to
complex international emergencies and outbreaks, (4) controlling and
eliminating disease, (5) identifying and characterizing disease, and
(6) educating and training about global water, sanitation, and hygiene.
Source(s) of Information
1. CDC: Global Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene (WASH)
2. CDC: Global Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene Brochure (PDF)
Related EPA Program(s)
Drinking Water Programs:
This program comprises the multiple-barrier approach to protecting public health from unsafe drinking water. Under this approach,
the Agency protects public health through: source water assessment and protection programs; promulgation of new or revised, scientifically
sound and risk-based National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWRs); training, technical assistance and financial
assistance programs to enhance systems’ capacity to comply with existing and new regulations; and the national implementation
of NPDWRs by state and tribal drinking water programs through regulatory, non-regulatory and voluntary programs and policies
to ensure safe drinking water.
Authorizing Legislation
• Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
• Clean Water Act (CWA)
Other Programs under Goal 2
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