Water Safety

Drinking Water Communication Resources

CDC provides fact sheets on social media on how to avoid getting sick from tap water and other drinking water, and toolkits to use before, during, and after a drinking water advisory or an outbreak linked to drinking water. 

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

📌 Find in Water Safety + Household Safety
💡 Print + post on social media, newsletters or emails.

Added 04.03.25

VDH Boil Water Advisory Social Media Graphics

Share these VDH social media shareables during a boil water advisory.

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish 

📌 Find in Water Safety + Household Safety

💡Post on social media, newsletters or emails.

Added 1.9.25

PFAS Communications Toolkit

EPA has developed this toolkit  to with communicate about PFAS, and about EPA’s new drinking water limits on certain PFAS. Toolkit includes videos, social media, fact sheets, and more. 

🎙️ Available in English

📌 Find in Water Safety + Household Safety

💡Share in newsletters, emails, and with community partners.

Added 8.12.25

PFAS Resources

CDC has a variety of resources about how you can be exposed to PFAS and how to reduce PFAS exposure.

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

📌 Find in Household Safety + Water Safety 

💡Share in newsletters, emails, and with community partners.

Added: 8.12.25

VDH Boil Water FAQ

This website from VDH provides guidance to the general public on why a boil water advisory may be issued and what to do during an advisory. It includes many FAQs organized by topic.

🎙️Available in English

📌 Find in Water Safety + Household Safety

💡Bookmark + reference when needed

 Added: 06.11.24

Safe Water During an Emergency

CDC has two flyers on safe water during an emergency:  Make Safe Water and Using Safe Water. 

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish 

📌 Find in Water Safety + Household Safety

💡 Print + share or send to businesses, organizations + community partners

Added 1.9.25

VDH Water Safety Toolkit

This toolkit from VDH offers several social media graphics, videos and post copy. Topics include drowning prevention, healthy swimming and harmful algal. Toolkit has info for both pool and natural waters. 

🎙️ Available in English, Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Spanish + Vietnamese

📌 Find in Water Safety. 

💡Print or share digitally in newsletters + emails. 

Added 05.29.25

VDH Waterborne Hazards Control Resources

This website from VDH offers numerous resources for waterborne hazards control, including outreach materials, pollution response, and a HAB toolkit. 

🎙️Available in English

📌 Find in Water Safety

💡 Review the resources and use as needed.

Added 04.22.24

Legionella Resources

Legionella bacteria spread through water systems and devices. CDC has a fact sheet and other resources to educate the public on how to prevent from getting Legionnaires' Disease (pneumonia).

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

📌 Find in Water Safety + Household Safety 

💡Share with community partners, housing, and pools.

Added 8.7.25

Making a splash with safe water

This CDC factsheet can help hotels take steps to keep guests and staff safe from Legionella.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 Find in Water Safety + Household Safety 

💡Share with community partners, housing, and pools.

Added 8.7.25

Providing a home for guests, not Legionella

This CDC factsheet can help vacation rentals owners take steps to keep guests, housekeeping staff, and themselves safe from Legionella.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 Find in Water Safety + Household Safety 

💡Share with community partners, hotels/housing, and pools.

Added 8.7.25

Make a Healthy Splash

This poster from CDC provides tips on how to stay healthy at splash pads. Information includes tips the "know before you go" and what to do (and not do) when you're there.

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

📌 Find in Water Safety

💡 Print + post or share in newsletters or emails.

Added 05.20.24

Share the Fun, Not the Germs

This brochure from CDC highlights a few easy steps that swimmers can follow to protect themselves, their families, and other swimmers from germs in the water. 

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

📌 Find in Water Safety

💡 Print + post in waiting rooms, or distribute to parents, childcare services, + pediatricians. 

Added 04.22.24

Keep Kids Healthy in the Water

This poster from CDC encourages caregivers to keep their kids healthy when they are playing in the water. It reminds them that germs can survive for days, even in well-maintained pools.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 Find in Water Safety

💡 Print + post or share in newsletters or emails.

Added 05.20.24

Store Pool Chemicals Safely

This poster from CDC is designed for aquatics professionals to post in places where pool chemicals are being stored. It includes information about what to do before you store pool chemicals, how to store them safely, and how to dispose of them.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 Find in Water Safety

💡 Print + post wherever pool chemicals are being stored.

Added 05.20.24

Use Pool Chemicals Safely

This poster from CDC is designed for aquatics professionals to post in places where pool chemicals are being used. It includes information about what to do before you use pool chemicals, who should use them, and how to use them safely.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 Find in Water Safety

💡 Print + post wherever pool chemicals are being used.

Added 05.20.24

VDH Water Safety Toolkit

This toolkit from VDH offers several social media graphics, videos and post copy. Topics include drowning prevention, healthy swimming and harmful algal. Toolkit has info for both pool and natural waters. 

🎙️ Available in English, Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Spanish + Vietnamese

📌 Find in Water Safety. 

💡Print or share digitally in newsletters + emails. 

Added 05.29.25

VDH Healthy & Safe Swimming Week Toolkit

This VDH toolkit has a variety of social media graphics for beach, pool, and natural water safety. Each topic comes with post copy and template news release.

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

📌 Find in Water Safety 

💡Print or share digitally in newsletters + emails. 

Updated 05.08.25

Pool Safely Educational Materials 

Pool Safely’s educational materials make it simple to share information about water safety that could save a life. Materials include brochures, posters, flyers, videos, and more. 

🎙️Available in English + Spanish

📌 Find in Water Safety

💡 Share on social media, newsletters + emails + with community pools & partners.

Healthy Swimming Resources

CDC provides resources about swimming-related illnesses, pool chemical safety, drowning, and other healthy and safe swimming topics. Share them with various groups, including swimmers, caregivers of young swimmers, aquatics staff, pool operators, and public health professionals.

🎙️ Available in English 

📌 Find in Water Safety

💡 Print + post or share in newsletters or emails.

Added 03.27.25