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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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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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Resolute Concept Advances in the DOE`s "Waves to Water Prize" competition
Today the U.S. Department of Energy announced that a technology concept that . RME has been developing to compete in the “Waves to Water Prize” competition will advance to the third “Adapt” round of the competition. Concurrent with the announcement of Resolute’s advancement was notification that Jennette’s Pier in Nags Head, NC has been selected as the site for ...
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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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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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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 supports action on water loan, regulatory legislation
The American Water Works Association (AWWA) today commended members of a U.S. House subcommittee for taking action on legislation to reauthorize the Drinking Water State Revolving Loan program and improve the Safe Drinking Water Act. Members of the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Environment concluded markup on the "Drinking Water System Improvement Act of 2017” on Thursday morning. The ...
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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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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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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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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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House Passage of Critical Water Infrastructure Bill Commended by American Public Works Association
The U.S. House of Representatives is commended by the American Public Works Association (APWA) for its approval late yesterday of the Water Resources Development Act of 2016 (WRDA), H.R. 5303. The legislation is critical for protecting our communities by authorizing 31 Army Corps of Engineers projects. Passed by a vote in the House of 399-25, the bill authorizes $9 billion for 31 Army Corps of ...
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AWWA applauds the U.S. Senate`s passage of the Water Resources Development Act
The American Water Works Association (AWWA) today applauded the U.S. Senate’s support for reinvesting in the nation’s water infrastructure with its inclusion of significant funding for two key programs in water resources legislation. The Senate approved S. 2848, the Water Resources Development Act or WRDA, today. The House is still working on its own version of a WRDA bill. ...
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New plant tests US appetite for seawater desalination
There's far more riding on the Americas' largest seawater desalination plant than the 50 million gallons of drinking water it will produce for the San Diego area each day. The plant, which opens this year, will help determine the future of seawater desalination in the U.S. The billion-dollar project is only the nation's second major seawater plant. The first U.S. foray in Tampa Bay is widely ...
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AWWA applauds doubling of WIFIA funding
The American Water Works Association today commended U.S. Congress and the Trump Administration for more than doubling the funding for the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) and bolstering the Drinking Water State Loan Fund (DWSRF) through the omnibus spending bill WIFIA received $63 million – up from $30 million in its first year of funding to make loans – and ...
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AWWA calls for Farm Bill measures that protect drinking water sources, encourage partnerships
With excess nutrients impacting water quality nationwide, the American Water Works Association (AWWA) today urged U.S. Congress to use the upcoming Farm Bill reauthorization to help farmers and water utilities work together to protect the nation’s drinking water. Large algal blooms resulting from nutrients have threatened water quality throughout the country, including shutting down the ...
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Senators Want Drinking Water Standard for Perchlorate
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat who serves as the new chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, has introduced two bills to protect people from drinking water contaminated by the toxic chemical perchlorate. One bill would direct the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, to promptly establish a health advisory, followed by a ...
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APWA Urges Congress to Pass Water Infrastructure Legislation
The American Public Works Association (APWA) and other key water groups are urging Congress to include water infrastructure provisions as part of a final Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) bill this year. The 12 water organizations support a bipartisan compromise of the WRDA bill with measures to invest in our nation’s water infrastructure, and to help communities meet their safe and ...
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Zimbabwe`s capital at risk from poor water
Zimbabwe's capital is at risk of a new cholera outbreak caused by collapsed water treatment and sanitation facilities, according to a Human Rights Watch report issued Tuesday. Residents in Harare's most impoverished townships have little access to clean piped water and often resort to drinking water from wells contaminated with feces and must defecate in the open, said the report. "The ...
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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 ...
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