Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) Articles

In a historic first, Milwaukee suburb now pipes in water from Lake Michigan

The 2018 Water Infrastructure Act is one of the most comprehensive pieces of legislation passed by Congress and will authorize over $6 billion in federal spending on ports, harbors and waterways

Funding could aid over $11 billion in infrastructure projects nationwide

In this week’s news briefs, the EPA invites utilities to apply for more than $2 billion in loans through the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act, and OSHA issues citations for an incident that killed three sewer workers in January

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

In this week’s news briefs, Trump’s proposed budget cuts targeting water programs don’t make it through Congress, and a New York county looking to transition from septic to sewer hopes funding in a new state law can help

Plans unveiled by the Trump Administration last week include elimination of a $498 million program that aids rural water and wastewater systems.

The latest four-year infrastructure report card from the American Society of Civil Engineers gives improving marks to the country’s water and wastewater infrastructure, but there is still a long way to go.

In this week’s news briefs, Flint, Michigan, finally gets the federal aid that has been held up in Congress, and a Florida city fires its water utility director following a sewage disaster.

The study indicates that while there are many new and innovative options for funding infrastructure, utilities still need sufficient revenue to access them.

The American Water Works Association is asking President-elect Donald Trump and the new administration to work with it on water infrastructure financing and cybersecurity.

We need to help disadvantaged communities sustainably manage and operate their water systems

Annual Water Matters! Fly-In puts spotlight on the country's aging water and wastewater infrastructure