Post Tagged with: "Safe Drinking Water Act"

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released for public comment a draft Sixth Contaminant Candidate List (CCL 6) that includes microplastics and pharmaceuticals for the first time. The draft list was announced at an event by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin along with a setRead More

A new study published today in the journal, Risk Analysis, a publication of the Society for Risk Analysis, maps which U.S. counties are most at risk for water quality and how ownership and inequality intersect. This study claims to be the first to combine nationwideRead More

By Kathryn Sorensen & Dr. Janet Anderson The Safe Drinking Water Act turns 50 this year and it’s important to recognize that it is one of the most remarkable and successful pieces of legislation this country has ever known. The provision of clean tap waterRead More

As part of National Water Quality Month this August, AWWA said it is launching an eight-week video campaign to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). For the past 50 years, the SDWA has set strong water qualityRead More

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in May issued a Unilateral Administrative Order to the Havasu Water Company in Needles, California, to take a series of steps to prevent further violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act. In taking this action to protect the healthRead More

The Water & Health Advisory Council (the council), a multidisciplinary group of drinking water experts, recently announced the launch of a national campaign to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Safe Drinking Water Act and provide guidance to lawmakers on the future of drinking water safety inRead More

| By Chad Seidel Recently released drinking water quality testing data calls into doubt major assumptions underpinning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed National Drinking Water Standards for PFOA and PFOS. Most importantly, these water quality testing results from water systems across the UnitedRead More

A Scathing Critique. A review of “Next Generation Compliance: Environmental Regulation for the Modern Era,” by author Cynthia Giles, published by Oxford University Press. | By G. Tracy Mehan, III Former Obama EPA enforcement chief Cynthia Giles has written a very challenging, well-documented critique ofRead More

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a unilateral administrative order (UAO) to the City of Baltimore to comply with Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) safeguards designed to protect public health from “illnesses linked to Cryptosporidium, Giardia and other bacteria from animal waste whichRead More

ASDWA has announced the launch of its new Environmental Justice webpage. The webpage includes ASDWA’s environmental justice strategy, developed by ASDWA’s members and staff and will guide the association’s work in the future, as well as a variety of resources related to environmental justice and drinkingRead More