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National Association of City Transportation Officials develops a guide to help cities better implement green infrastructure alongside street components

In this week’s news briefs, D.C. Water awards the contract for a 5-mile, $580 million tunnel project that will reduce overflows into the Anacostia River, and a Michigan city is adding defendants to its lawsuit over who should pay for the repairs of a collapsed sewer and large sinkhole that appeared this past Christmas Eve

Texas utility takes a proactive approach — even going door to door — to educate customers on the problems caused by grease and flushable wipes

A regional compact among four Southeast Florida counties allows for ample sharing of resources to tackle shared problems

Florida Atlantic University researchers looked at what happens when utilities move beyond only watering restrictions and give customers a little more information about their water use

The Philadelphia Water Department is trying to help struggling ratepayers and at the same time perhaps bolster overall collections

AWWA’s Buried No Longer tool is a resource that utilities can use in planning for their own system’s upgrades, and the data will also be used to develop a national report about infrastructure needs

The Green Bay Water Utility has made a concerted effort to identify all the lead in its system, and provide waterline replacements at no cost to homeowners

Kingston, Ontario’s online mapping feature allows people to better assess the safety of area waterways

From plant tours to promoting short educational videos on social media, utilities did a variety of activities to mark Drinking Water Week

In this week’s news briefs, the California state Senate passes legislation aimed at making it easier to finance stormwater capture projects, and the New York Department of Environmental Conservation debuts a mapping tool to better identify water quality problem areas

Iowa’s Save Our Sewers has grown by specializing in manhole rehab and providing a more cost-effective approach to city’s problems

Neighborhood developers in Milwaukee plan to repurpose an old lift station into a walk-up eatery

A $1 billion price tag on a deep tunnel was too hefty, so Evansville, Indiana, had to do some work to strike a more affordable agreement with the EPA