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Webinar | Improving Financial Reporting for Water Infrastructure Activities

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Join this webinar to hear a unique case study of the West Basin Municipal Water District’s experience managing their primary facility assets. Margaret Moggia, Executive Manager of Finance for the West Basin Municipal Water District, will share how the District leveraged their Operations Department’s efforts in asset management.  This allowed the District to improve their financial reporting of capital assets by developing a way to componentize its existing water facility assets with the appropriate useful life, and remove certain duplicate assets.  In addition, you will learn best practices related to asset management developed by the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA), and how to use asset management practices to boost partnership and regionalization efforts. Learn how an organization separates assets Understand ways to collaborate outside of your department Understand ways to leverage inter-connective opportunities Gain an understanding of GFOAenvironm best practices related to asset management

Webinar | Health Effects Associated with Harmful Algal Blooms

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EPA’s Safe and Sustainable Water Resources (SSWR) Research Program hosts this webinar series to share current research activities and research results. Through innovative science and engineering, EPA’s researchers are developing cost-effective, sustainable solutions to 21st century complex water issues. The scientific results and innovative technologies developed support EPA’s mandate to protect the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of our Nation’s water resources, and to ensure safe drinking water and water systems. It is EPA's policy to make reasonable accommodation to persons with disabilities wishing to participate in the Agency's programs and activities, pursuant to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. 791. Any request for accommodation should be made to Michelle Latham at latham.michelle@epa.gov in advance of the webinar. For future viewing, a closed captioned recording of the webinar will be made available on EPA’s YouTube site. You can register here!

Webinar | Building Security and Resilience to Cyber Threats, Disinformation, and other Hazards in the Water and Wastewater Sector

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For National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, EPA will be hosting a 90-minute webinar featuring experts from EPA’s Water Security Division (WSD), the Water Information Sharing and Analysis Center (WaterISAC) and the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA). Experts will discuss their roles in supporting and furthering the security and resilience of the drinking water and wastewater sector. The webinar will feature the following experts: Nelson Mix (Environmental Engineer, EPA), Chuck Egli (Lead Analyst, WaterISAC), Jennifer Lyn Walker (Cyber Threat Analyst, WaterISAC), and Mikko McFeely (Manager of Federal Relations, AMWA). The webinar will cover the importance of water quality surveillance and response systems (SRS) and communications; balancing valuable technology needs, such as Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), with cybersecurity performance measures; malicious threats in the cyber domain that threaten the sector; and the challenges that disinformation can pose to utilities. This webinar also offers free continuing education units (CEUs).  You can register for the webinar here:  https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3911834082279759374

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