NACWA submitted comments March 17 on EPA’s Draft Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2020 as part of the public review process. The annual Inventory provides nationwide estimates for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for different sectors, including wastewater treatment, and is intended to be used only for informational purposes.

NACWA Vice President Tom Sigmund, Executive Director of NEW Water in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and NACWA Board Member Kyle Dreyfuss-Wells, CEO of the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD), testified in-person March 16 before the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee during a bipartisan hearing entitled Oversight of the Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund Formula.

The White House recently released a guidebook for state, local, territorial, and tribal governments to navigate the bipartisan infrastructure law (BIL), which was signed into law in November 2021. On March 15, officials from the White House, Department of Interior (DOI) and EPA hosted “water school” – a webinar focused on water related provisions of the BIL.

At last week’s WateReuse Symposium in San Antonio, NACWA, the WateReuse Association, EPA, and the Association of Clean Water Administrators (ACWA) were pleased to announce the completion of Water Reuse Action Plan (WRAP) Action Item 2.2.6, Navigating the NPDES Permitting Process for Water Reuse Projects. ​

Mount Pleasant Waterworks (MPW) in South Carolina provides water and wastewater service to over 90,000 people in the Town of Mount Pleasant. NACWA awarded the Mount Pleasant Waterworks a 2022 National Environmental Achievement Award in the Operations & Environmental Performance category for its creative repurposing of a beloved, historic water infrastructure.

(Washington, DC) -- Today, members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee heard testimony from public clean water utility members of the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) during the Committee’s hearing, “Oversight of the Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund Formula”.