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The AWWA, AMWA and WEF have sent joint letters to appropriations committees in both the House and the Senate seeking full funding for the new WIFIA and for the existing State Revolving Fund programs for fiscal year 2015.

In an important development for the future of cybersecurity in the water sector, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has indicated it will pursue a voluntary partnership model to manage cybersecurity risks at water utilities.

Innovyze has announced that Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) in Washington has chosen the company?s InfoWater to support its large-scale, enterprise-wide geospatial water distribution network modeling and management needs.

In April, hundreds of water quality professionals visited Washington, D.C., to meet with members of Congress and discuss the prevailing water quality-related policy issues they are concerned about in what was billed as Water Week 2014, a first-ever event for Washington and for the water sector.

The Prince William County Service Authority?s (Va.) Geographic Information System (GIS) department playsa tremendous role in improving availability of utility-wide information to those who need access to it. That role will increase in the next few years thanks to a recent move to make the Service Authority more GIS-centric.

With the limited resources we do have to sustain our infrastructure, we tend to focus on what we can see: roads, bridges, schools and even our government facilities such as parks, offices, etc. We are more likely to neglect what we do not see, such as underground water and sewer infrastructure.

This month, an estimated 11,000 water professionals will convene in Boston, Mass., for the American Water Works Association?s (AWWA) Annual Conference & Exposition (ACE14). Attending the association?s annual conference is nothing new for people in the water industry. Perhaps for some, attending each year has turned into somewhat of a formality.

The Capacity Optimization Fee is designed to optimize the wastewater plant?s capacity to serve the community by assessing customers for discharge capacity they are permitted for but may not be using. Some customers may wish to avoid paying the COFee by reducing the permitted capacity above 15 percent of the highest usage in the past 12 months.

As St. Louis has grown, so has the Missouri River Wastewater Treatment Plant, one of seven treatment plants in the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (MSD). Yet, over two decades, the district has implemented each upgrade, capacity increase and structural addition without taking the plant offline for significant periods of time.

The City of Newark, Ohio recently sought relief from excessive electric bills through significant process upgrades. The Licking River Wastewater Treatment Plant on the east side of the city completed installation of new, highly efficient bubble diffusers in its aeration basins, WAS tanks and a post-aeration tank.