EPA Administrator Michael Regan told Congress this week that the agency was "laser focused" on the growing threat of cyberattacks targeting municipal water and wastewater systems and was requesting over $4 billion to upgrade nationwide water infrastructure. 

Regan said the budget request includes $50 million for a new grant program supporting resiliency and sustainability efforts across public water systems, as well as $25 million for another grant program meant to support water systems as they establish and build necessary cyber capabilities. The budget request also includes $35 million to provide water and wastewater systems with technical assistance.

"What I can say is we are not in the business of abdicating our responsibility to anyone else," Regan told an environmental subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, adding: "We take cybersecurity in the water space very seriously."