Drinking Water Headlines

Conference Committee Formed to Avoid Another Shutdown

Conference Committee Formed to Avoid Another Shutdown

A select number of House and Senate members, chiefly from the Appropriations Committees, have been tapped to try and find...

Shutdown Day 35

Shutdown Day 35

Today (1/25), marks Day 35 of the partial federal government shutdown. While this shutdown has lasted longer than many would...

ASDWA Summarizes States’ Challenges in Comments to EPA on Draft Toxicity Assessments for GenX and PFBS

ASDWA Summarizes States’ Challenges in Comments to EPA on Draft Toxicity Assessments for GenX and PFBS

In mid-November, EPA released draft toxicity assessments for GenX and PFBS. Comments were due to EPA yesterday (1/22) and ASDWA...

ASDWA Co-signs Infrastructure Letter with 90 Other Organizations

ASDWA Co-signs Infrastructure Letter with 90 Other Organizations

ASDWA co-signed a letter to Congressional leadership, along with 90 other organizations, urging them to include funding and financing for...

New Web Series

New Web Series

Our colleagues at WaterOperator.org are offering a free webinar series over the next several weeks that will cover six areas...

ASDWA and GWPC Submit Joint Comments to EPA on Source Water Protection Measures Reporting

ASDWA and GWPC Submit Joint Comments to EPA on Source Water Protection Measures Reporting

On January 8th, ASDWA and the Ground Water Protection Council (GWPC) submitted joint comments to EPA’s docket on the “Agency...

Shutdown Day 28

Shutdown Day 28

Today (1/18) marks Day 28 of the partial federal government shutdown and while 18 and 28 provide some numerical symmetry, it's challenging to find anything positive to say about the situation between Congress and the President.

New Training Module for Building Water Management Plans

New Training Module for Building Water Management Plans

Our colleagues in the National Center for Environmental Health just released a new online training: Preventing Legionnaires’ Disease: A Training...

New Study Published on Nitrate and Environmental Justice

New Study Published on Nitrate and Environmental Justice

Researchers from the Silent Spring Institute recently published a study analyzing socioeconomic impacts from nitrate in U.S. drinking water. The study compiled nitrate data from 39,466 community water systems from 2010-2014 and linked this data with both city- and county-level demographic data from the Census Bureau. 

ASTHO Releases New Drinking Water Preparedness Report

ASTHO Releases New Drinking Water Preparedness Report

The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) recently published a new report on the state of water preparedness. This report is based on the results from a 2018 survey of state and territorial directors of public health preparedness and environmental health.

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