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FY2025 Allotments for the SRFs
Fiscal Year 2025 Allotments for the State Revolving Fund Provisions of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and Base Program Funding On May 16, 2025, the EPA posted the allotments for Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds for Fiscal Year 2025. EPA is making $8.9 billion available in new Clean Water and Drinking Water [...]
EPA PFAS Update
EPA Announces It Will Keep Maximum Contaminant Levels for PFOA, PFOS EPA intends to provide regulatory flexibility and holistically address these contaminants in drinking water U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency will keep the current National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWR) for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), which [...]
ASCE 2025 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure
The ASCE 2025 Report Card for America's Infrastructure gave U.S. infrastructure an overall "C" grade, marking an improvement from the "C-" in 2021 and the highest grade since 1998. The report highlights progress driven by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) but stresses that more investment is needed. Despite improvements, the infrastructure funding gap has [...]
How Can AI Technologies Be Used to Ethically Provide Clean Drinking Water?
By Susi Ricker Artificial intelligence (AI) describes an ever-evolving cyber tool which can be used to assist in many different business applications, including the water industry. Due to the fast implementation of this methodology, there are unknowns which create challenges in establishing protocols. AI technologies can be used ethically to provide clean drinking water by applying [...]
Introducing our 2025 Executive Committee and Board of Directors: Leaders Shaping the Future!
Introducing our 2025 Executive Committee and Board of Directors Leaders Shaping the Future! Please join us in welcoming the 2025 Executive Committee and Board of Directors for WWEMA! This exceptional team, boasting unparalleled experience, expertise, and visionary leadership, will help us reach new milestones and achieve even greater success in the year ahead. Together, this diverse [...]
EPA Announces Proposed Regulatory Determinations for the Fifth Contaminant Candidate List
EPA Announces Proposed Regulatory Determinations for the Fifth Contaminant Candidate List on January 7, 2025, EPA released preliminary determinations for contaminants on the Fifth Contaminant Candidate List, a mechanism under the Safe Drinking Water Act to evaluate drinking water contaminants for potential nationwide regulation. The contaminants that EPA analyzed under the Fifth Contaminant Candidate List were [...]
U.S. EPA Finalizes New PFAS and Toxic Chemical Testing Rules for Manufacturers
EPA Reforms New Chemicals Review Process to Better Protect Public Health, Promote Efficiency and Consistency Final amendments will ensure that new PFAS and persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) chemicals are subject to safety review process prior to manufacture On December 4, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized amendments to the regulations that govern the [...]
2023 Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Annual Report
EPA has released its 2023 Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) annual report. The annual report highlights key programmatic and financial information including the amount of loans and assistance provided to communities, set-asides totals, savings to the communities amongst other information from FY 2023 and throughout the history of the program. Case studies are highlighted at [...]