Water Safety
A basic human necessity, water is something most of us in North America take for granted every day. The United States has been able to boast of having the safest water in the world for the past several decades, but we are now facing pervasive, systematic water quality threats unprecedented in scope. To address these challenges, the UA has created the Water Quality Program. This is a major initiative vital to public safety, designed to help develop critically needed solutions to our emerging water quality crises.
Numerous factors are driving this crisis, including aging infrastructure, outdated safety standards and new types of water-based pollutants. The UA Water Quality Program is focused on finding solutions. To this end, we have launched an initiative for craft-specific training to equip water systems tradespeople with the knowledge, skills and protocols needed to comply with these and other applicable industry requirements.
The UA Water Quality Program is also fostering efforts to promote federal infrastructure funding to ensuring better water quality from the source to the faucet through new state and local legislation.
The UA Water Quality Program is timely and important. This is an arena in which our dedication to skills, training and safety is more critical than ever, and we are making sure our members and contractors are ASSE certified to perform this work.
