Regulations and Legislation Features, Insights, & Analysis

31. U.S. Water Strategy: Think Locally, Act Globally 1/24/2018

    A new plan has been created by the U.S. government to bring safe drinking water, sanitation services, sustainability, and resiliency to the world’s most water-stressed countries, with benefits for the U.S. as well.

32. 3 Things My Climate-Skeptic Dad Taught Me About Clean Energy Advocacy 12/13/2017

    As an advocate for the air, water, and economic benefits that clean energy provides, I find some of my most challenging — and maybe most rewarding — work is trying to engage climate-skeptic lawmakers at the Texas Capitol in Austin.

33. Calling Out The EPA On Water Issues 10/12/2017

    Everyone must answer to someone — even the rule-makers themselves. While it may seem to water and wastewater utilities that the U.S. EPA is the end of the line, there is yet another government agency that holds the EPA's feet to the fire.

34. Legal Issues In Big Data: 2017 6/29/2017

    Big Data is often characterized by the large volume of data, the wide variety of data types and the velocity at which the data must be processed. Data can come from many different sources, such as social media use, online purchases, licensed twitter data streams or sensors used in the Internet of Things (IoT).

35. Just Like Social Causes, Environmentalism Is About Putting People First 6/19/2017

    The 85th Texas Regular Legislative Session has drawn to a close. Now that we've had some time to digest what went down (and get some sleep), we can reflect. There is no doubt: This was a very hard Session. Emotions were high and lives were at stake.

36. 'Buy American' Enforcement: Plugging Leaks 6/7/2017

    EPA doles $2 billion a year in water grants that are supposed to go to American-made products — but don’t, necessarily. The way EPA leaks funds to foreign firms is like watching lead leach in Flint — it’s absurd and it just keeps flowing. The loopholes to close are explained here. (The Chinese and the multinationals won’t like this.)

37. Boston Harbor Overhaul: A Water Cleanup Success Story 5/15/2017

    Boston Harbor used to be an icon of water pollution in the U.S. But a massive cleanup effort — one of the biggest restoration feats in the nation’s history — has revived the harbor in the last three decades.

38. Value-Based Procurement: Steps In The Right Direction 5/10/2017

    As a means of encouraging the growth of new technologies and improving operating costs, water and wastewater equipment manufacturers have long advocated for changing the mindset of equipment procurement from low-bid to lowest life-cycle cost evaluation.This have proven to be a very daunting task. 

39. Will The Nation's Water Infrastructure Needs Be Overlooked Again? 4/28/2017

    Industry experts and government officials fear that when President Donald Trump’s proposed $1 trillion infrastructure plan is finally “laid out,” water infrastructure projects could largely be “left out.”

40. Rounding Up The Water, Clean Energy, And Climate Bills In The 85th Texas Legislative Session 4/18/2017

    We’re entering the home stretch of the 85th Session of the Texas Legislature.