COVID-19

  1. Public Water Sector Applauds Senate Leadership For Addressing Urgent Water Needs In American Rescue Plan Act 3/8/2021

    Over the weekend, the United States Senate passed the American Rescue Plan Act, legislation to deliver additional COVID-19 relief that contains $500M in assistance for clean and drinking water customers and support for critical water and sewer investments.

  2. Battelle Research Pinpoints Local Viral Outbreaks Through Sewage Examination 3/3/2021

    Battelle research shows that analyzing wastewater for the presence of the virus that causes COVID-19 can pinpoint specific neighborhoods that are hotspots for viral outbreaks.

  3. Standard Water Treatment Eliminates 'Enveloped' Viruses 2/24/2021

    Among the many avenues that viruses, such as the novel coronavirus, can use to infect humans, drinking water may pose only a tiny risk.

  4. GoAigua, The European Company With The World's Largest Operation To Detect SARS-CoV-2 In Wastewater, Is Helping Communities In New England Stop The Spread 2/22/2021

    Community testing for COVID-19 has become a hot topic in the last months, especially when looking at wastewater. Since March 2020, some of Europe’s largest cities have been implementing widespread surveillance systems that are efficiently testing entire cities every day, at a neighborhood and even building level, by detecting traces of the virus RNA in wastewater. GoAigua, the leading European player in wastewater-based epidemiology, has been helping over 20 cities in Europe and performed over 20,000 tests this year to provide communities with a reliable and anticipated source of community infection assessment.

  5. Should Drinking Water And Wastewater Utility Employees Receive COVID-19 Vaccine Priority? 2/18/2021

    As limited doses of approved COVID-19 vaccines are distributed around the country, vulnerable populations and frontline workers have been given priority to receive them. And in certain pockets of the U.S., drinking water and wastewater employees have made the case that they should be included in the priority grouping.

  6. IWA Announces Major Virtual Congress For 2021 2/17/2021

    IWA is delighted to announce that it will be hosting the Digital World Water Congress, which will take place virtually from 24 May - 4 June 2021.

  7. Global Water Trends 2021: Shaping The Future Of The Water Industry 2/11/2021

    2020 is now history, yet its legacy has taught us the importance of good water management in our lives, whether directly or indirectly. Now, with the whole of 2021 ahead of us, what we need to do is set the goal of optimum management and anticipate the hurdles in front of us. The technological revolution in which we are immersed will be a powerful lever for change that will provide utilities with the digital tools they need to successfully and rapidly adapt their processes.

  8. NRWA Supports The Bipartisan Bill To Increase Emergency Funding For Rural Water Systems 2/8/2021

    This past Friday, February 5, Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) reintroduced bipartisan legislation to provide rural communities under economic strain during the COVID-19 pandemic with direct emergency assistance to sustain critical water and wastewater services.

  9. Study Yields Recommendations To Prevent Outbreaks From Waterborne Coronaviruses 2/8/2021

    Testing has shown that sewage systems can be flush with coronaviruses, and airborne coronaviruses traced to wastewater have been identified as the cause of at least one major disease outbreak.

  10. Recovering Stronger: Transforming Water Management In America 2/4/2021

    COVID-19 has upended life across America, disrupting business as usual in every sector and shifting the way we relate to, and work with, one another. In many ways, and across many sectors, the pandemic exposes and reinforces structural challenges and social inequities. In the water sector, this plays out through access to water, the cost of water services, governance structures, and even how we fund and deliver those water services.