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Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships

This toolkit provides guidance for partnering to address a common goal.

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Engaging Your Community: Strategies for Clear Communication and Effective Outreach

Best practices for clear communication and effective community outreach around water issues.

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Lead Service Line Identification and Replacement Webinars

EPA Office of Water hosted a series of quarterly webinars highlighting challenges and successes in lead service line identification and replacement.

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Quick tips for speaking at a public meeting

Guidance on how to engage with city or township officials to influence decision-making.

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Find and contact elected officials

Get the names and contact information for the people who represent you on the federal, state, and local levels.

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Guide to Community Drinking Water Advocacy

A guide to community drinking water advocacy and resources for engaging on local water issues.

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Community Water Leaders Network

Community Water Center launched the Community Water Leaders Network to address systemic exclusion of low-income, rural communities of color in water decision making.

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Evansville Offering Lead Pipe Replacement At No Cost

Evansville is offering to replace lead pipes in some west side neighborhoods at no cost.

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Crews replace thousands of lead service lines in Near Northwest Riverside neighborhood

Indianapolis socializes LSL replacemnet costs so customers pay less than $5 per bill.

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Your Water, Your Data: Michigan’s Lead Service Line Tracker Explained

Safe Water Engineering and Planet Detroit have launched a first-of-its-kind map showing every Michigan water system’s lead service line inventory and replacement progress.

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Milwaukee is one of the few cities in the country with a prioritization plan to ensure neighborhoods likely to suffer the most severe impacts from lead poisoning get their pipes replaced first. In consultation with a community-based group, Coalition for Lead Emergency (COLE), and following a public engagement process, Milwaukee included in an ordinance three indicators to prioritize where LSLs will be removed first:

  1. The area deprivation index (ADI), which is a compilation of social determinants of health
  2. The percentage of children found to have elevated lead levels in their blood when tested for lead poisoning
  3. The density of lead service lines in the neighborhood.

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