The 2014 ARCSA Conference will focus on the challenges that the United States water supply faces and how Rainwater Harvesting can provide economically and environmentally viable solutions. ARCSA’s Celebrity Key Note Speaker and notable educators and professionals will discuss fragile water supplies, impacts on water supplies by drought and flooding, four steps to a clean tank, and other topics such as myths about rainwater harvesting systems. We will also discuss the latest on legislative actions, codes and standards, rainwater guidelines, and stormwater guidelines. A conference wrap-up will include a panel and attendee discussion on how rainwater catchment in the U.S. can help provide solutions to U.S. water challenges.
Blogs
Open Forum on Microcystin Contamination
In response to the microcystin contamination in Toledo, Ohio, the WQA Water Sciences Committee is hosting an online meeting/conference call to share information and have a technical discussion regarding this event.
Cyanotoxins and Microcystin
The Water Quality Association has released an official statement on cyanotoxins such as microcystin, which was recently detected in the public water supply serving Toledo, Ohio.
Rainwater Harvesting Can Create Safe, Decentralized Water Supplies – ARCSA
The mission of the 501(c)3 ARCSA is to promote sustainable rainwater harvesting practices to help solve potable, non-potable, stormwater and energy challenges throughout the world.
Group comments regarding draft of NSF 375
The Water Quality Association (WQA) and American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE), as well as the
undersigned companies, strongly object to NSF 375, and the process through which it was developed, for three
main reasons: