Catalog of Environmental Programs 2012
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EPA Goal 2: Protecting America’s Waters |
Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch
Purpose
The Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch, within the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and
Environmental Diseases works to protect and improve public health by
promoting healthy drinking and recreational water, adequate sanitation,
and improved hygiene in the United States and around the world. The Waterborne
Disease Prevention Branch tracks waterborne disease nationally, identify the
causes and sources of waterborne disease and outbreaks, establish the risk
factors for infection, develop improved laboratory detection and sampling
methods, develop new ways to remove or inactivate pathogens, assess new
prevention ideas, develop WASH-related guidance and policy, and promote
improved public health. As critical components of any plan to assure
healthy lives, water, sanitation, and hygiene expertise is supported
by many groups at CDC. The Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch is one
group at CDC focusing on WASH-related infectious disease prevention. These
groups work together on WASH-related issues bridging infectious and
chronic diseases, environmental health, emergency response, injury
prevention, and worker safety.
Source(s) of Information
1. CDC: Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch
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)
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