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Water infrastructure bill to top $1 trillion
The cost of repairing and expanding U.S. drinking water infrastructure will top $1 trillion in the next 25 years, an expense that likely will be met primarily through higher water bills and local fees, a groundbreaking study by the American Water Works Association (AWWA) shows. The report, titled “Buried No Longer: Confronting America’s Water Infrastructure Challenge,” analyzes ...
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AWWA cheers drinking water protection measures in Farm Bill
The American Water Works Association, the largest association of water professionals in the world, today applauded the U.S. House Agriculture Committee for introducing a Farm Bill that recognizes the importance of protecting drinking water sources from nutrient runoff. In a letter delivered to the committee today, AWWA thanked Chairman K. Michael Conaway, R-TX, and Ranking Member Collin ...
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OriginOil’s CLEAN-FRAC™ Water Treatment System Yields Successful First Field Results
OriginOil, Inc. (OTCBB: OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough energy production process for the oil and algae industries, today announced its CLEAN-FRAC™ water treatment system for the oil and gas industry successfully completed its first field testing on produced water at an oil well in Lost Hills near Bakersfield, California. The field trials demonstrated that the process removes almost ...
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NACWA Applauds Senate Passage of Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Passage of this legislation comes after months of bipartisan negotiations between the Biden Administration and a bipartisan group of Senators. The legislative package contains $550 billion in new spending, of which $55 billion will go toward clean and drinking water. Specifically, the bill’s provisions for the ...
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DuPont Agrees to Keep Teflon Chemical Out of Water
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, November 21, 2006 (ENS) - E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. has signed an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) setting a lowered interim screening level for perfluorooctanoic acid in drinking water sources around the DuPont Washington Works in West Virginia. The EPA is establishing a much lower permissible level of of 0.50 parts per billion, ...
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AWWA whiteboard animation urges action on Farm Bill to protect drinking water sources
A whiteboard animation produced by the American Water Works Association illustrates how Farm Bill conservation programs along with partnerships between the Unites States Department of Agriculture (USDA), water utilities and farmers can be key to protecting drinking water sources. Available on AWWA’s YouTube channel and viewed more than 2,100 times, the video points out how Congress can ...
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APWA Commends House of Representatives’ Passing the Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Assistance Act
The American Public Works Association (APWA) commends the House of Representatives for passing S.611, the Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Assistance Act. This legislation reauthorizes the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) Technical Assistance Program, which helps small and rural communities comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act. The House bill would authorize $15 million ...
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AWWA to Congress: Controlling nutrient pollution key to preventing cyanotoxins in drinking water
In testimony today before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, American Water Works Association Water Utility Council Chair Aurel Arndt stressed that the solution to keeping drinking water safe from cyanotoxins begins with better managing nutrient pollution. The subcommittee hearings are in response to an event in August 2014 when the City of Toledo, Ohio, found the ...
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Pesticide Storage Tanks and how Anglian Water is reducing metaldahyde entering water supplies
Slugs are of course a huge problem across farming and metaldahyde is used extensively to combat them each year. Although harmless to humans, the chemical is extremely difficult to remove from water treatment works and meeting the tough EU targets on its control is a challenge. Even the equivalent of one drop in an Olympic-sized swimming pool would go against EU regulations. Anglian Water has ...
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Florida Gulf Coast University chooses LG Sonic technology to control algal blooms
To control algae, FGCU’S Everglades Wetland Research Park in Naples will use LG Sonic’s MPC-Buoy systems. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection awarded FGCU’s Everglades Wetland Research Park in Naples the grant to run a pilot project. Director Bill Mitsch says “It’s a big grant. It sounds awesome because it’s a million-dollar grant”. The ...
By LG Sonic
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2013 California legislative session: Environmental progress in the face of industry roadblocks
The first half of the 2013-2014 California legislative session wrapped-up with hard won public interest environmental bills headed to the Governor’s desk in the areas of wildlife protection, reducing chemical exposure and clean transportation, among others, but more work remains to be done in the second half of the session to protect California from industrial pollution, according to the ...
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Recent Federal Developments
TSCA/FIFRA/IRIS/EPCRA EPA Revokes TSCA Section 4 Testing Requirements For Certain High Production Volume Chemical Substances: On March 16, 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revoked certain testing requirements for six chemical substances and all testing requirements for four chemical substances. 77 Fed. Reg. 15609. EPA is reportedly basing its decision to take this action on ...
By Acta Group
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