Safe Drinking Water:
How can we provide it in our community?

Bulletin 882-00

Acknowledgements

This project is supported in part by the Ohio Small Community Environmental Infrastructure Group.

Introduction

Many important issues emerge when considering the provision of drinking water in a small community. The following worksheets address some of the key issues. Please use these worksheets in a group discussion with a few friends and colleagues. For example:

• Discuss each worksheet over lunch.
  
  
• Meet for morning coffee and discuss each worksheet.
  
  
• Get together for a snack after a regular community meeting and go over each worksheet.
  
  
• Add a discussion of each worksheet to a regular community meeting.
  

Thirteen worksheets are included in this booklet. It should take a total of two hours to complete the booklet. You may wish to schedule four, 30-minute meetings to discuss these issues over the next few weeks.

Each person in your group should read through each newspaper article. The discussion questions are listed at the bottom of each article. After your group has discussed an issue, turn the page and talk about how these issues are currently being addressed.

Your group is sure to come up with some great ideas for how to provide safe drinking water in a small community. Please identify your best ideas and be prepared to report them back in the workshop.