本文描述了康奈尔大学合作推广部和康奈尔大学教员和教育工作者的教育和研究项目，该项目直接响应联邦和州保护和改善饮用水的倡议，包括纽约水源评估项目。项目团队将小型供水系统运营商，尤其是餐馆、便利店、露营地、移动住宅公园和小型公寓楼等农村企业视为服务不足的受众，可能会对水质产生重大影响。 所述教育计划将非点源污染控制常用的现场评估方法与企业和制造商常用的污染预防方法相结合。现场和运行评估有助于用户确定可能的现场污染源，确定污染物的传播路线，并制定将水资源污染可能性降至最低的管理实践。材料包括网站地图模板、每个主题（饮用水井、燃料储罐等）的教育和评估指南- 现场废水处理系统、杀虫剂、地面维护和危险化学品）。课程方法和内容的评估是通过对研讨会参与者的干预前后访谈以及由教育工作者进行的现场评估来完成的。该项目将由2002年秋季的卫星广播电视会议启动。包括3个参考文献、表格、图表。

This paper describes an education and research program by Cornell Cooperative Extension and Cornell University faculty and educators that is in direct response to federal and state initiatives to protect and improve drinking water, including the New York Source Water Assessment Program. The project team identified small water systems operators, particularly rural businesses such as restaurants, convenience stores, campgrounds, mobile home parks, and small apartment buildings, as an under-served audience that may have a significant impact on water quality. The educational program described combines a site assessment approach common to nonpoint source pollution control with a pollution prevention approach common for businesses and manufacturers. The site and operations assessment assist the user in identifying possible on-site sources of contamination, identify travel routes of the contaminants, and develop management practices that will minimize the potential for contamination of water resources. Materials include a site map template, education and assessment guides on each topic (drinking water well, fuel storage tanks, on-site wastewater treatment systems, pesticides, grounds maintenance, and hazardous chemical products). Evaluation of the program methods and content was accomplished through pre- and post-intervention interviews of participants in a workshop and in site assessments conducted by an educator. Implementation of the program will be initiated by a satellite-broadcast videoconference in the fall of 2002. Includes 3 references, table, figures.