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Ensuring a sustainable future : an energy management guidebook for wastewater and water utilities.

Environmental management systems (EMS) involve a set of management processes and procedures that allow an organization to analyze and reduce the environmental impact of its activities. EPA has developed a step-by-step workbook to help utilities use an EMS approach to reduce energy use at water and w...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: United States. Environmental Protection Agency, United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Wastewater Management, Global Environment & Technology Foundation
Format: Government Document eBook
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C.] : [Arlington, Va.] : U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ; Global Environment & Technology Foundation, [2008]
Subjects:
Sewage > Purification > Energy consumption > United States.
Sewage > Purification > Energy conservation > United States.
Sewage disposal plants > Energy conservation > United States.
Water quality management > Energy conservation > United States.
Online Access:Connect to electronic version (PURL)
https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS93632
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Summary:Environmental management systems (EMS) involve a set of management processes and procedures that allow an organization to analyze and reduce the environmental impact of its activities. EPA has developed a step-by-step workbook to help utilities use an EMS approach to reduce energy use at water and wastewater facilities and is holding a number of workshops to promote the approach.
Item Description:Title from title screen (viewed Feb. 1, 2008).
"This guidebook was developed under contract number GS-10F-0337M with the Office of Wastewater Management at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"--P. 1.
"January 2008."
EPA 830-B-08-001 EPA publication number assigned by NCEP.
Physical Description:78, [32] p. : digital, PDF file.
Format:System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Mode of access: Internet from the EPA web site. Address as of 4/30/08: http://www.epa.gov/waterinfrastructure/pdfs/guidebook%5Fsi%5Fenergymanagement.pdf ; current access available via PURL.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.