The Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP), in collaboration with the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators (ASDWA), recently published a guide to help small communities, technical assistance providers and stakeholders identify non-treatment and treatment alternatives for emerging contaminants. RCAP said the guide is intended toRead 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

American Water Works Association (AWWA) CEO David LaFrance and Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA) CEO Tom Dobbins released the following statement on Sept. 12 regarding EPA’s request to the U.S. Court of Appeals to vacate the regulations and regulatory determinations for six PFAS (individuallyRead More

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that $337 million will go to North Carolina as the state continues recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. EPA allocated $276 million in additional supplemental appropriation funds under Title VI of the Clean Water ActRead More

As municipal water systems across the United States confront new PFAS regulations, utilities face a complex mix of technical, financial and operational decisions. We caught up with Sarah Johnson, vice president of engineering at AqueoUS Vets® who shared some practical insights on PFAS treatment designRead 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

Houston Public Works Director Randy Macchi recently announced the city is hiring Andrew Molly, who will serve as the department’s first chief water officer. “Drew is truly a “who’s who” in the world of water,” Macchi wrote on LinkedIn. “Beyond his technical expertise, he isRead More

Energy services company NORESCO announced it has been engaged to deliver $100 million in treatment upgrades for the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) at its Water Resource Recovery Facility (WRRF) in Detroit. NORESCO is a provider of comprehensive energy and water efficiency, resiliency and infrastructureRead More

AlexRenew Boosts Operational Efficiency Recently, AlexRenew, the wastewater authority serving Alexandria, Virginia, implemented new asset management software and modified internal processes to help modernize its operations. The upgrade is an example of what the authority’s leadership describes as a transformation of its asset management processRead More

If you haven’t heard, there’s still a lot going on with regulatory and legal action related to PFAS and other “forever chemicals.” To get an update, we sat down with Ken Sansone, senior partner at SL Environmental Law Group, to discuss recent activity. Sansone focusesRead More