Drinking Water News

  1. Interior Announces $889 Million Investment In Western Water Infrastructure 3/17/2026

    The Department of the Interior today announced $889 million in investments for critical water infrastructure projects across the West made possible by President Donald J. Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

  2. PPI Announces Support Of Bipartisan Plastic Health Research Act 3/17/2026

    The Plastics Pipe Institute, Inc. (PPI) today announced its support for the Plastic Health Research Act (H.R. 4903), the bipartisan legislation introduced by Reps. Haley Stevens (D-MI) and Frank Lucas (R-OK) to expand and coordinate federal research on plastic exposure and potential impacts on human health.

  3. Mongolia Water Compact: Mongolia's First Large-Scale Wastewater Recycling Plant Commences Operations 3/16/2026

    The Government of Mongolia and the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) marked the official opening and launch of operations of Mongolia’s first large-scale Wastewater Recycling Plant, built under the Wastewater Recycling Project—one of the three main components of the Mongolia Water Compact.

  4. EPA To Take Over Potomac River Water Quality Sampling Near Interceptor Site 3/16/2026

    Today, as part of the ongoing federal response to the Potomac Interceptor collapse, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will assume responsibility for water quality sampling previously conducted by the DC Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE).

  5. Research Group Co-Led By UC Irvine Develops First-Of-Its-Kind Ion Pump 3/16/2026

    Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, Israel’s Tel Aviv University and other institutions have developed a first-of-its-kind membrane through which charged molecules pass using nothing more than a rapidly switching low-voltage signal.

  6. Sunvapor's Pilot Desalination Facility Purifies Oilfield Water In The Permian Basin 3/16/2026

    Sunvapor, Inc., a leading developer of low-carbon industrial process plants, and Southeast New Mexico College (SENMC) have commenced joint operations of the country's first solar desalination facility located at a commercial salt water disposal well.

  7. EPA Public-Private Partnership Advances Gold Standard Science To Protect Water Resources 3/13/2026

    Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is renewing a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) initiated under the first Trump Administration with eight associations representing the aluminum, cobalt, copper, lead, zinc, and nickel industries.

  8. MSU, Glanbia Collaboration Advances Environmental Sustainability At Michigan Dairy Processing Facility 3/13/2026

    Processing billions of pounds of milk each year leaves little margin for error. At MWC, a state-of-the-art cheese and whey protein manufacturing facility in St. Johns, even minor disruptions in wastewater treatment can threaten production, environmental compliance and the livelihoods tied to Michigan’s dairy economy.

  9. Superfund Designation For Ann Arbor's Gelman Sciences Site A Win For Public Health, Local Drinking Water 3/12/2026

    The Michigan League of Conservation Voters and Huron River Watershed Council today applauded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to add the Gelman Science site in Ann Arbor to the federal Superfund National Priorities List, a critical step toward finally addressing the decades-long spread of toxic 1,4-dioxane contamination threatening the region’s groundwater and the Huron River.

  10. Improperly Disposed Wet Wipes Could Shed Microplastics In Rivers 3/12/2026

    Wet wipes conveniently clean and sanitize soiled surfaces and skin. Because some labels do not clearly indicate how consumers should dispose of them, these small cloths often are flushed down the toilet and released by sewage plants into waterways.