Online Exclusives News Briefs: Pilot Project Aims to Help Clean Up Tijuana River Also in this week's sewer and water news, lagoon project workers file lawsuits claiming they were wrongfully terminated for reporting asbestos contamination January 02, 2025
Online Exclusives News Briefs: Family Sues City of Dallas After Woman Falls Into Manhole and Dies Also in this week's sewer and water news, CISA and EPA collaborate on a cybersecurity recommendations fact sheet for water/wastewater utilities December 19, 2024
Online Exclusives News Briefs: Woman Survives Overnight After Fall Into Manhole, Rescued by Firefighters Also in this week's sewer and water news, environmental groups petition the U.S. EPA to monitor microplastics in drinking water December 05, 2024
Online Exclusives Money Talks: Grants to Twin Cities Residents to Help Boost Water Savings A Twin Cities utility’s Water Efficiency Grant Program incentivizes municipalities and water customers to conserve and help protect the region’s aquifers December 02, 2024
Online Exclusives News Briefs: Federal Probe Finds 'Critical' Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities in Nearly 100 Water Systems Also in this week's water and wastewater news, the City of Asheville Water Resources Department officially lifts the boil water notice first issued after Hurricane Helene November 21, 2024
Online Exclusives News Briefs: Carolinas-Based Utility Sues 14 Corporations for PFAS Contamination Also in this week's sewer and water news, a study finds that foodborne pathogens can attach to microplastics, surviving wastewater treatment November 14, 2024
Online Exclusives News Briefs: Water Utility Employee Rescued After Fall While Working Underground Also in this week's sewer and water news, officials are working to restore drinking water after flooding from Hurricane Helene leaves a wastewater treatment facility in North Carolina inoperable October 24, 2024
Online Exclusives News Briefs: American Water Hit by Cyberattack Also in this week's water and wastewater news, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rule requiring drinking water systems across the country to identify and replace lead pipes within 10 years October 10, 2024
Online Exclusives News Briefs: EPA Launches Site to Support Development of Climate-Resilient Projects Also in this week's sewer and water news, a 4.5 million-gallon wastewater spill floods streets and homes in Florida September 19, 2024
Online Exclusives News Briefs: Person Hospitalized Following Detroit Manhole Explosion Also in this week's sewer and water news, the U.S. EPA announces the availability of $7.5 billion of Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act funding September 12, 2024
Online Exclusives News Briefs: AWWA's Water Infrastructure Conference Slated Sept. 8-11 Also in this week's sewer and water news, the U.S. EPA announces $9 million in research grants to assess the impact of antimicrobial resistance in wastewater August 29, 2024
Online Exclusives News Briefs: Former Clerk Arrested in Indiana for Water Utility Embezzlement Also in this week's sewer and water news, a boil-water advisory is issued in New Orleans after a foil balloon struck a power line, causing an outage at a treatment plant August 15, 2024