[Owtsinfo] Water Finance Newsletter: Special Edition on COVID-19: EPA Encourages Americans to Only Flush Toilet Paper

Tue Mar 31 07:45:44 EDT 2020

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Special Edition
EPA Encourages Americans to Only Flush Toilet Paper

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Preventable toilet and sewer backups can pose a threat to human health and present an extra challenge to our water utilities and their workforce. Flushing anything other than toilet paper, including disinfecting wipes, can damage internal plumbing, local sewer systems and septic systems. Fixing these backups is costly and takes time and resources away from ensuring that wastewater management systems are otherwise working properly. EPA thanks wastewater utilities and their workforce for their courageous efforts at a time when resources may be stretched thin. Having fully operational wastewater services is critical to containing COVID-19 and protecting Americans from other public health risks. Our nation’s wastewater employees are everyday heroes who are on the front line of protecting human health and the environment every single day.

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