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WWEMA’s Ternieden Moderates Panel on Wastewater Surveillance Monitoring for Anti-Resistant Bacteria
Claudio Ternieden, WWEMA's Executive Director is moderating a panel on Wastewater Surveillance Monitoring for Anti-Resistant Bacteria at the World Anti-Microbial Resistance Congress in Philadelphia! "[These] technologies will be essential in scaling-up public health defense tools," Ternieden notes.
EPA Sent the 7th Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment to Congress
A recent EPA survey aimed to assess the nation’s public water systems needs for the next 20 years---the7thDrinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment (DWSRF)‑‑-to Congress has been used as support to allocate $6.5 billion into federal funding for states in order to upgrade and fix the nation’s lead service line. The survey found that drinking [...]
EPA Releases the First of 12 Sets of Data to be Released through 2026 – Related to PFAS in Drinking Water
Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) specifies that every five years EPA is required to monitor for priority contaminants that may be present in drinking water but are not yet subject to EPA drinking water regulations. EPA uses the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR) to provide the agency and other interested parties with nationally representative data on [...]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its new revised guidance in Title 2 of the Code of Federal Regulations (2 CFR)
August 14, 2023. As required by BABA, the new part 184 of 2 CFR provides clear and consistent guidance to Federal agencies about how to apply the domestic content procurement preference (Buy America or BABA preference) as set forth in BABA to Federal awards for infrastructure projects. See BABA 70915. For example, the new part 184 [...]
What’s next for WWEMA interview with Claudio Ternieden and Bob Crossen
The Water and Wastewater Equipment Manufacturers Association (WWEMA) has a new executive director: Claudio Ternieden. In this interview, Editorial Director Bob Crossen asks Ternieden about his vision for WWEMA, and about the association’s future as the voice of manufacturing in the water sector. Ternieden outlines the major steps that he plans to take: interfacing with [...]
The WWEMA Board of Directors is pleased to announce the selection of Cláudio Ternieden, J.D., MPP as the next Executive Director of WWEMA to succeed Vanessa Leiby upon her retirement on July 1, 2023. Cláudio brings a wealth of experience to WWEMA from his distinguished background in the water sector as detailed in the Press Release [...]