Source Water Protection Activity Guide

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Water Audits

Protection Activity: Planning

Water audits of domestic, sanitary, landscaping, and process water use identify ways to increase a facility's water-use efficiency. Increased water efficiency can indirectly promote source water protection by reducing urban runoff from landscaping and water entering wastewater treatment or septic systems that could carry contaminants. 



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