Drinking Water News and Headlines

  1. Safe Drinking Water Is A Right. Experts Want AI To Help Make It A Reality. 4/25/2023

    Safe, clean and affordable drinking water is a human right in California. But making that legal requirement a reality is a difficult challenge exacerbated further by climate change.

  2. Capturing Nanoplastics In Tap Water With Light 2/27/2023

    Nanoplastics are plastics that have been discarded from our daily lives and that enter ecosystems in the size scale below 1 micro-metter after their physical and chemical disintegration.

  3. DHEC Receives EPA Approval Of Updates To Statewide Strategy For Protecting Drinking Water 2/14/2023

    The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) has received federal authorization of its updates to the statewide drinking water capacity development strategy.

  4. EPA And HUD Officials Present Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert With $34.3M To Protect Children From Lead At Homes In City 2/3/2023

    Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) presented ceremonial checks worth $34.3M to the City of Omaha, Nebraska, to protect children from lead at homes in the city.

  5. ASDWA Submits Comments On EPA's Federalism Consultation On The Lead and Copper Rule Improvements 12/14/2022

    Pursuant to Executive Order 13132, which directs federal agencies to consult with state and local officials, or their national organizations, when developing regulations that impose substantial compliance costs on state and local governments, EPA held a Federalism Consultation on the Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) on October 13, 2022.

  6. Register Today For Michigan Water And Wastewater Professionals Week Webinars! 11/17/2022

    Water is one of our most valuable resources in Michigan and necessary to sustain life. Governor Gretchen Whitmer officially designated the week of December 12-18, 2022, as Water and Wastewater Professional Workforce Week to recognize the important role these critical water professionals have played in keeping the water running through our pipes each day.

  7. NextCycle Michigan Announces 16 Teams For Innovation Challenge Programs 11/17/2022

    The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) is pleased to announce the selection of 16 teams from around the state to participate in two upcoming NextCycle Michigan Innovation Challenge program tracks: Foods, Liquids, and Organic Waste Systems (FLOWS), focused on organics recovery; and Recycling Innovation and Technology (RIT), focused on novel recycling technologies.

  8. Endress+Hauser Launches New Sensors And Holder Assembly For Disinfection And Water Treatment 8/16/2022

    Endress+Hauser released new Liquid Analysis disinfection sensors and accessories for measurement in more applications, adding the CCS55D Memosens Free Bromine sensor, CCS58D Memosens Ozone sensor, and Flowfit CYA27 assembly to its product family.

  9. MAPP Africa Signs Memorandum Of Understanding With Environmental Management Agency (EMA) Of Zimbabwe To Set Up Highly Advanced Water Quality Monitoring 7/21/2022

    MAPP Africa (https://MAPPAfrica.com) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Environmental Management Agency of Zimbabwe (EMA) to set up ground, surface, and portable water quality monitoring, microbiology testing-as-a-service business.

  10. WSSC Water Toasts Start Of $36.7M Water Quality Laboratory Expansion 6/28/2022

    WSSC Water General Manager and CEO Carla Reid today joined Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) Deputy Secretary Suzanne Dorsey, WSSC Water Commission Chairman Fausto Bayonet, Grunley Construction Company Vice President of Operations Bill Six and other officials to toast the start of a $36.7M project to expand and upgrade WSSC Water’s Laboratory in Silver Spring, Maryland.