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By Ken Sansone & Kyla Tengdin Disbursements from the landmark Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) Products Liability Litigation settlements with 3M and DuPont began this past summer for eligible water systems that submitted claims documentation on time. For many systems, awards from these settlements willRead More

By Harold Mosely The Public Works Department for the City of Decatur, Illinois, has found a solution to a persistent challenge facing water utilities nationwide: efficiently collecting representative samples from distribution systems while maintaining rigorous water quality standards. Serving both the City of Decatur andRead More

By Steve Causseaux All 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and four U.S. territories, have detected PFAS or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances contamination in their water supplies. Environmental Working Group scientists estimate that more than 200 million Americans are served by water systems containingRead More

By Ronald Kirjner The U.S. loses 6 billion gallons of treated water every single day. That’s 2.1 trillion gallons a year — enough to fill more than 9,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools — lost primarily to leaky pipes and aging infrastructure. Traditional methods of managing water loss canRead More

By Michael Warady Imagine a newly expanded municipal service area — complete with state-of-the-art SCADA systems, pressure-zoned districts, energy-efficient pumps and upgraded mainline materials. The project was hailed as a sustainability success: reduced energy consumption, lower water loss and optimized distribution performance. But within aRead More

By Charlie Suse In November of 2021, the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) was passed, ushering in a historic infusion of federal funding to bolster the nation’s infrastructure. The IIJA appropriated roughly $43.5 billion for water infrastructure through the existing State RevolvingRead More

By Rotem Ben-Eliyahu Cyber intrusions are now a mainstream business risk for water utilities. A 2025 cross-Atlantic survey from Semperis found that nearly two-thirds of operators experienced at least one cyber-attack in the previous year, and more than half of those incidents caused lasting damageRead More

By Brad Lowe For more than 100 years, Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) has provided essential and reliable electric and water services to the Orlando area. As the second-largest municipal utility in the state, OUC maintains more than 283,000 electric meters and more than 166,000 waterRead More

By John Ryan The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Corps Water Infrastructure Finance Program (CWIFP) is an original part of the successful 2014 WIFIA loan program statutory framework. CWIFP’s implementation has been much delayed (more on that later), but the program was finally able toRead More

By Mark Gimson Understanding the Air Challenge in Water Systems Air in pipelines presents significant challenges for water infrastructure. As an invisible and compressible fluid, air can disrupt water distribution in multiple ways. It forms pockets that impede flow, reduces pipeline capacity, and may createRead More