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EPA and America's Clean Water Foundation Encourage Global Water Quality Monitoring Effort

Release Date: 09/02/2004
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(Washington, D.C. - Sept. 2, 2004) Officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and America's Clean Water Foundation will hold a news conference at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 3, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to help engage civic groups, churches and other organizations to participate in the second annual World Water Monitoring Day on Oct. 18, 2004. In its first year, World Water Monitoring Day drew participants from 24 countries to monitor and obtain information about the health of their local watersheds. Information about participating in the event and receiving water monitoring kits, go to: http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.org .


Who: Ben Grumbles, Acting Assistant Administrator for the Office of
Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Roberta Savage, President and Chief Executive Officer, America's Clean Water Foundation

What: Announce Second World Water Monitoring Day and encourage water quality monitoring of local watersheds

When: Friday, Sept. 3, 2004, 10:30 a.m.

Where: Murrow Room, National Press Club, 529 14th St. N.W., 13th Floor,
Washington, D.C.