Senate Democrats released their $1 trillion plan for rebuilding America’s infrastructure last week, on the heels of the White House’s infrastructure proposal that was released last month and as Congress begins crafting comprehensive infrastructure legislation.

NACWA is proud to release a valuable new resource to help your clean water utility succeed: The MS4 Stormwater Permitting Guide.

NACWA joined a large group of national and California county, municipal, and water associations to file an amici brief March 8 in support of a Petition for Rehearing en banc that was filed by NACWA Member Agency the Maui County Department of Environmental Management.

NACWA submitted comments on March 9 regarding EPA’s Draft Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2016. The annual Inventory provides nationwide estimates for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission for different sectors, including wastewater treatment, and is intended to be used only for informational purposes.

NACWA and its coalition partners in the Infrastructure Working Group took part in Capitol Hill Day visits with Members of Congress and their staffs last week to discuss the importance of advancing a legislative infrastructure package.

The latest installment of the Hot Topics in Clean Water Law webinar series, hosted on March 7, covered new and developing issues in clean water law and drew more than 130 attendees.

NACWA submitted comments to EPA on March 8 regarding the Agency’s preliminary efforts to make long-term revisions and updates to the Lead and Copper Rule (LCR).

NACWA participated in a roundtable discussion March 8 hosted by the Brookings Institution to examine water workforce issues.

During a congressional briefing on March 6, the US Water Alliance (USWA) released a new report, An Equitable Water Future: Opportunities for the Great Lakes Region, that lays out an agenda for creating more equitable water systems in the Great Lakes region.

Water Week 2018 and its highlight event, the National Water Policy Fly-in (NWPF), are only five weeks away – now is the time to make your plans to attend!

NACWA has sent letters to Congressional Appropriators reiterating several important funding asks, as the March 23 deadline approaches for Congress to pass a Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 appropriations measure based on a framework prescribed by the recently passed, bipartisan budget deal. Both letters, one to the full committee and one to the subcommittees, reflect the requests that NACWA and the water sector have been advocating throughout the past year.