IAPMO Group Highlights Important Function Plumbing Performs in Constructing Resilience, Defending Public Well being

Constructing on the momentum began final yr, The IAPMO Group, once more celebrates March4Water, a month-long observance of the myriad methods communities derive higher well being and resilience via plumbing.

Centered round two international days of recognition — World Plumbing Day (March 11) and World Water Day (March 22), March4Water seeks to deliver consciousness to challenges and inequities in offering clear ingesting water and secure sanitation, in addition to the options the plumbing trade is producing to handle them.

Every week in March will deal with the 4 pillars of plumbing resilience:

• Public Well being + Security
• Catastrophe Mitigation + Restoration
• Sustainability + Effectivity
• Affordability + Fairness

March4Water will accomplish this through a group of actions and sources designed to coach and have interaction about:

• “Water: from Level A to YOU” — from the place does water come and the place does it go?
• Water filtration that removes lead and PFAS from ingesting water.
• A worldwide view on water stresses and workforce growth from the World Plumbing Council.
• WaterSense and Repair-a-Leak Week, two extremely efficient EPA applications.
• Greatest practices for plumbing codes primarily based on native water want in a “Plumbing Resiliency Toolkit for Communities.” The IAPMO Group helps ease of implementation for superior water applied sciences by geographic area with detailed customization choices.

IAPMO can also be assembly with elected officers in Washington, D.C. and nationwide, and invitations everybody with water pursuits to share schooling data with social media posts out there at uniformcodes.org/march4water.