Articles by: WFM Staff

In December, associations representing the municipal water and wastewater sector submitted a letter to President-elect Donald Trump, urging his administration to prioritize water infrastructure in his second term. The letter was endorsed by the American Water Works Association (AWWA), Water Environment Federation (WEF), the AssociationRead More

On Dec. 13, the American Water Works Association (AWWA) filed a Petition for Review of the Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. With the petition, AWWA looks to address the feasibility of replacingRead More

A preliminary analysis presented in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2024 Water Affordability Needs Assessment Report indicates between 12.1 million and 19.2 million households throughout the United States lack affordable access to water services. EPA’s Water Affordability Needs Assessment Report provides an estimate of the water affordability burdenRead More

Distribution pipes can fail five times more frequently than transmission mains and generally experience more leaks. But the consequence of failure on transmission mains can be significant, and repairs can cost into the tens of millions. Asha Budhlall, product manager at Mueller, joins us onRead More

The Water Environment Federation (WEF) and the Water Environment Association of Texas (WEAT) have announced the Collection Systems & Stormwater Conference 2025, to be held July 15–18, 2025, in Houston, Texas. This first-of-its-kind partnership brings together WEF’s global expertise and WEAT’s regional insight to deliverRead More

Issues can arise at any and all stages of implementing advanced metering — from project inception through post-installation. Many times, these projects are treated like a technology upgrade rather than a transformative, holistic program. In this eBook sponsored by UMS, we’ll walk through several issuesRead More

The City of Woodbury, Minnesota, has awarded a contract to PFAS treatment solutions provider, AqueosUS Vets, for a new, cutting-edge water treatment plant project that, when completed, will remove PFAS from groundwater wells used to supply drinking water to the city. The project will includeRead More

Oldcastle Infrastructure, a CRH Company, recently announced a new funding mechanism to support the deployment of promising new water technologies in the United States. Through a ‘Minority-Led U.S. Utilities Trial Reservoir,’ a partnership with water consultancy Isle Utilities, technology companies can access loans for trialingRead More

…& Legal Impacts on Clean Water Act Enforcement A recent Clean Water Act (CWA) case, City and County of San Francisco v. EPA, has the potential to impact policy around CWA enforcement and could be significant for water quality regulation across the United States. ToRead More

Last week, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) reached a final agreement on the Thomas R. Carper Water Resources Development Act of 2024 (WRDA). The Water Resources Development Act is biennial legislation that authorizes theRead More