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The Office of Drinking Water would like your feedback on our draft Capacity Development Strategy. Once we receive your feedback and complete the document, we will submit it to the Environmental Protection Agency.
DOH leads the drinking water program as part of its Environmental Public Health Division. Our work is public health focused. While we strive to build water system capacity at every level, we focus on our responsibility to protect public health and ensure that the public is notified of health risks under the authority of our State Board of Health.
Washington’s water system capacity development strategy documents our effort in pursuit of the ODW’s mission statement: We work with others to protect the people of Washington by ensuring safe and reliable drinking water. We do that by helping each new and existing public water system acquire and maintain technical, managerial, and financial capacity so the system can meet the aspirations of its community now and into the foreseeable future.
Please help us complete this document.
We released it for the purpose of soliciting comments from stakeholders and the public. We present it to you before it completed internal review. Consequently, you will find there are incomplete sentences, highlighted text, inline comments, missing links, formatting oddities, and even entirely blank sections. None of the figures are professionally designed. This is intentional. Water policy affects us all. It’s important to us that you affect our final document. We’re pleased to invite you to make drinking water more equitable, safe, and reliable for us all.
You can download the document here.
Please send your comments by November 6, 2022, to brian.sayrs@doh.wa.gov. It would also be helpful if you supply the page or section number where your comments apply.
Thank you for helping us make a better Washington!
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