大多数饮用水公用事业公司都同意，流域水源保护主义是地表水资源处理采用多屏障方法的第一步。犹他州的一个流域计划于1980年启动，旨在保护水库的水质和有益用途，该计划继续演变为一个完整的流域水源保护计划，以应对《清洁水法案》和《安全饮用水法案》的挑战。本文的目的是展示由《清洁水法》发起的积极的水质保护和改善计划的合作努力如何为目前面临1996年《安全饮用水法》修正案所要求的水源保护要求的饮用水机构提供了不可估量的好处。 包括数字。

Most drinking water utilities would agree that watershed source water protectionis the first step toward a multiple barrier approach to treatment of surface water sources. A watershed program in Utah, initiated in 1980 to protect water quality and beneficialuses in a reservoir, continues to evolve into a total watershed source protection plan to meet the challenges of both the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how cooperative efforts of an aggressive water quality protection and improvement program initiated by the Clean Water Act has provided immeasurable benefits to drinking water agencies now facing the requirement of source water protection as required in the 1996 amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act. Includes figures.