Clean Water Public Utility Leaders from Birmingham, AL, Cleveland, OH, and Buffalo, NY warn Jackson Water Crisis is not an anomaly; Data shows average annual wastewater service charge for a single-family household has risen at twice the rate of inflation between 2000 and 2021.

Dating back to the Bronze Age, humans have used wastewater and stormwater for irrigation of crops. Since that time, reuse has evolved with applications moving beyond agriculture to include non-potable uses such as cooling and toilet flushing and potable uses such as groundwater and reservoir augmentation. Shifting factors such as population growth and climate change have...

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was passed in August 2022 and outlines aggressive action to address climate change. While the $740 billion package is not focused directly on water, many of the provisions in the bill include potential impacts to clean water via the nexus with climate change, clean energy, conservation, and environmental justice.

After the midterm elections, Congress was faced with a hefty to-do list before the end of the year - including reauthorizing the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), passing the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), and reaching compromise on a funding agreement to keep the government open, to name a few.

U.S. EPA Assistant Administrator Radhika Fox issued a new memorandum, Addressing PFAS Discharges in NPDES Permits and Through the Pretreatment Program and Monitoring Programs, to states’ regulatory authorities on December 5 detailing recommendations on how the Agency would like states to leverage Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits to reduce PFAS discharges into waters.

In a notice published in the Federal Register on November 30, EPA seeks to collect information from wastewater laboratories, including POTWs, on the “analytic ability of laboratories that perform chemical, microbiological and whole effluent toxicity analyses.”