犹他州五大供水公司和美国环境质量部（DEQ）成立了犹他州水质联盟，努力生产质量最好的饮用水。该联盟旨在监测水源水和净化水的质量，优化处理过程，并评估新技术，以进一步减少令人担忧的污染物。该联盟的活动符合后来提出的国家水质改善计划“安全用水伙伴关系”的许多标准。通过开放通信线路、通过州DEQ的参与获得额外资金、分享专业知识以完成复杂任务，如示踪研究和广泛监测项目（e。 g、 ，信息收集前规则研究）。包括18个参考文献、表格、图表。

The five largest water utilities in Utah and the State Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) formed the Utah Water Quality Alliance to strive to produce drinking water of the best quality. The alliance was designed to monitor both source water and treated water quality, optimize treatment processes, and evaluate new technologies to further reduce contaminants of concern. The alliance's activities fulfilled many of the criteria of a subsequently proposed national water quality enhancement program, the Partnership for Safe Water. Each utility has benefited from this multiagency and cooperative approach by opening communication lines, securing additional funding through the participation of the state DEQ, and sharing expertise to accomplish complex tasks such as tracer studies and extensive monitoring programs (e.g., the pre-Information Collection Rule study). Includes 18 references, tables, figures.