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Why Doesn't the United States Have an Energy Policy to Create Jobs and Protect the Environment?A year after the Gulf Coast oil spill, with radioactive water spilling into the ocean off Japan and tales of woe from Pennsylvanians who believe their water supply has been affected by Marcellus shale gas drilling, the energy-water nexus grows stronger and stronger. So too does the opportunity to educate local communities about how to protect essential water resources in the midst of rapid change. With that in mind, the WREN Feature this month is Larry Schweiger's editorial from National Wildife magazine. Read Larry's View.
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Nationwide Drug Take-back Day April 30 Help publicize collection spots in your community 
Don't forget the second nationwide day to collect unwanted, expired, and unused drugs on April 30. Local police departments are partnering with the federal Drug Enforcement Agency to host collection sites across the nation. To find a collection site near you, visit www.dea.gov.
Help publicize collection spots in your area. For more information and publicity tools see WREN's March Feature.
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WREN Drinking Water Protection Workshops in Elk County
June 21 & 22, 2011 - Save the Dates
Julie Kollar from WREN and Mark Stephens, P.G. from DEP will be presenting WREN's popular Drinking Water Protection course at North Central PA Regional Planning & Development Commission, 651 Montmorenci Road, Ridgway on June 21 from 1:00 - 4:45 pm. The workshop is open to public; 3.5 CEU's available for water operators. Registration will be available soon at
www.sourcewaterpa.org
At the same facility the next day, Mark and Julie are doing a free SWP Training for Planners from 10am - 2pm. Check the WREN calendar for more details coming soon. |
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WREN's SourcewaterPA website goes live
 WREN has launched a new Source Water Protection website to help protect the untreated "raw" water from lakes, rivers, streams, springs, and aquifers that we depend on to provide public drinking water in the Commonwealth. The goal of the www.sourcewaterpa.org web site is to make source water protection information accessible and to encourage water suppliers, public water users, government officials, planners, and conservation groups to incorporate protection of water supply areas into their planning processes. You can also learn about the common sense ways water systems and communities across Pennsylvania are working together with residents to safeguard groundwater and surface water sources from contamination from everyday activities to protect public health. SourcewaterPA offers communities and water suppliers solutions to protect drinking water in all its forms: underground and in lakes, rivers and streams to give an extra margin of safety to water coming out of the tap. Start today to head off pollution problems.
Safe Drinking Water Starts at the Source!
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Delaware Basin Drinking Water Forum
The Basin wide forum at six locations on March 10 came off with only a few hitches - including threats of flooding in the Upper Basin that limited some attendance. The recorded proceedings are now available on-line at http://www.delawarebasindrinkingwater.org/view-recorded-proceedings/ . A final wrap-up will be posted on the site soon.
Take a Google flight over the Delaware Basin and learn about the unique characteristics of this basin.
http://www.epa.gov/region03/multimedia/playercontents/video/DRBT/DRBT2.html
Watch "Person On the Street Interviews" from Independence Square in Philadelphia to hear opinions about drinking water: http://www.epa.gov/region03/multimedia/playercontents/video/MOS/MOS2.html |
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Lehigh Valley Clean Water Summit
May 21 at Bangor Area High School
WREN Grantee Northampton Conservation District and partners will host full day workshop with tools and solutions that local officials, communities, public water systems, and conservation groups can use to protect their drinking water. Details on the WREN Calendar page. |
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Quick Links
Time magazine's March 31 cover story on shale gas
Nuture Nature Center, an important resource to help address flooding, based in Easton, PA
Penn State Cooperative Extension Natural Gas Events and webinars
WREN websites: http://wren.palwv.org and www.sourcewaterpa.org
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