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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a $58 million Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loan to the Amador Water Agency Financing Corporation in Amador County, California, to make improvements to several drinking water treatment plants, which will increase treatment capacity and reliability.

U.S. and Canada’s municipal water utilities are moving beyond early digital adoption to system-wide deployment of connected infrastructure solutions and devices. This shift is driving digital water spend from US$14.4 billion today to US$28.6 billion by 2036, fueled by infrastructure asset failures, drought, and tightening regulatory mandates, according to Bluefield Research, a leading provider of global water market data and insights.

Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI), which is innovating new ways for utilities and cities to manage energy and water, has completed the deployment of a smart water management project with Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC), the governing body of the city of Thane in western India.

Ahead of OzWater 2026, Paul Stute, product manager for remote telemetry units at Ovarro, explains how one Australian water utility modernised automation and control of its critical infrastructure, helping drive onsite efficiencies.

After years of seasonal process instability, the Henry N. Wochholz Regional Water Recycling Facility (WRWRF) in Yucaipa, California has achieved its most reliable operating period on record, reducing nitrification upsets by 95% following the integration of Moleaer's nanobubble pretreatment technology.

AWWA CEO David LaFrance and AMWA CEO Tom Dobbins released the following statement regarding EPA’s newly released proposals Extending the Compliance Deadline for the PFAS National Primary Drinking Water Regulation and Rescission of Regulatory Determinations and Removal of Related Provisions for Four PFAS Substances (PFHxS, PFNA, HFPO-DA (GenX), and the mixture of these three PFAS plus PFBS).