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Build Flood Resilience at Your Water and Wastewater Utility

On this page:
  • Use the Flood Resilience Guide to protect your utility
  • Download the Flood Resilience Guide
  • View the Flood Resilience - Overview video
  • Explore additional flood resources for your water utility

Use the Flood Resilience Guide to Protect Your Utility.

With a user-friendly layout, embedded videos, and flood maps to guide you, EPA's Flood Resilience Guide is your one-stop resource to protect your critical assets. Targeted to small and medium drinking water and wastewater utilities.

  • Download the Flood Resilience Guide document

View the Flood Resilience - Overview video

The "Flood Resilience Guide - Overview" helps small and medium utilities become more resilient to flooding (Runtime 3:57 min).


Explore Additional Flood Resources for Water Utilities

Use EPA's Flood Checklist

The Flood Resilience Checklist, under the Smart Growth Strategies for Disaster Recovery and Resilience program, helps communities develop a comprehensive flood resilience plan. 

Related Information

Flood Resilience Guide Fact Sheet

Emergency Response for Drinking Water and Wastewater Utilities

  • Plan For Emergencies
    • Develop or Update an Emergency Response Plan
    • Emergency Drinking Water Supply Guidance
    • Incident Action Checklists
    • Water and Wastewater Supply Chain Resilience
    • Water Sector Guide to Telecommunications During Power Outages
    • Prepare for Position Navigation and Timing Risks
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    • Build Earthquake Resilience
    • Build Flood Resilience
    • Build Pandemic Resilience
    • Build Power Resilience
    • Build Wildfire Resilience
    • Respond to Drought
  • Mutual Aid and Assistance for Drinking Water and Wastewater Utilities
    • Learn About Water/Wastewater Agency Response Networks (WARNs)
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    • Access WARN Training Tools
  • Decontamination
    • Documents to Guide Remediation
    • Sampling Methods and Decontamination Technologies
    • Response Protocol Toolbox
  • Water Utility Communication During Emergency Response
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Last updated on April 15, 2025
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