Water sector groups oppose EPA’s plans for cyber audits in sanitary surveys

In December, several water sector associations wrote to EPA Assistant Administrator for Water Radhika Fox to express concern and opposition to the agency’s plans to incorporate cybersecurity audits as part of utility sanitary surveys. The EPA proposal was included in its FY22 budget request to Congress and officials have been moving forward to implement the concept.

Meanwhile, the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA) and other water sector associations including AWWA, NAWC and NRWA, say they have heard near-universal objections to the approach, including from the primacy agencies that would be mandated to implement the new requirement.