Events on the Horizon

Hydraulic Fracturing Webinar 2: Transparency The U.S. Water Alliance is conducting a four-part webinar series Hydraulic Fracturing: Beyond Name Calling to Real Environmental Protection. Register now for the second webinar, Transparency that Benefits All–Disclosing Fracturing Fluids and Operations, which will take place on February 19, 2013 from 2:00 – 3:00 pm EST. UPDATE: Webinar 1: Knowing [...]

State Drinking Water and Agriculture Working Together to Protect our Tap

On Wednesday, January 9, 2013, from 1:00 to 2:30 pm EST, the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators and the Ground Water Protection Council will hold a FREE webinar on “How State Source Water Programs can Work with their US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Partners to Protect Drinking Water Sources.” The webinar agenda will include: [...]

Lake Erie: Canary in the Coal Mine

Back in the 1970′s, Lake Erie was often referred to as the Great Lakes’ “canary in the coal mine.” Today, a combination of old and new challenges to the lake’s health is leading to more monitoring by federal, state, and international officials, as well as private citizens from the area. Amy Jo Klei, the Ohio [...]

US EPA’s Climate Ready Water Utilities Initiative

Climate change has affected the U.S. in many ways in 2012. The U.S. EPA has created the Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool (CREAT) software to assist drinking water and wastewater utilities in assessing their risk to climate change impacts and in developing adaptation strategies in response. In addition to evaluating risk at a utility, [...]

The Water Fiscal Cliff

While the fiscal cliff may have been averted for a while, there is still a water infrastructure cliff looming on the horizon. Michael Reuter serves as director for The Nature Conservancy’s North America Freshwater Program and for the Great Rivers Partnership, and he has written an opinion/editorial on the need to reshape the way we [...]

Grumbles Testifies on Innovative Approaches for Financing Infrastructure

(Washington, D.C.) U.S. Water Alliance President Ben Grumbles testified before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today on how to better enable local communities to finance wastewater and drinking water facilities mandated by state and federal environmental laws and regulations.  “We urgently need water innovation and collaboration, not only to sharpen and polish existing tools, [...]

Finding Water on the Go

We’ve been hearing for years – even decades now that people should “reduce, reuse, and recycle,” but what happens when your re-usable bottle starts to run low while you’re out and about? Well the people behind TapIt and WeTap want to help you re-fill your bottle for free so you don’t have to resort to [...]

Government Re-thinks Fluoride in Drinking Water

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are looking at reducing the amount of fluoride that is currently in municipal drinking water supplies. Excessive amounts can cause adverse health effects. The move builds on a decision by HHS to lower its recommended fluoride level from 1.2 [...]

Drinking Water of 15 Million Americans Threatened

A new study released by the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary describes how the fresh water of the Delaware estuary is threatened by future sea-level rise resulting from climate change. The report, Climate Change and the Delaware Estuary warns that as sea levels rise, salt water will move inland up the estuary – endangering the [...]

USGS Reports Drinking Water Wells are Contaminated…But Safe

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) just published a report on the state of drinking water wells and aquifer systems in California, Nebraska, Connecticut, and Florida. Overall, they found that some wells were contaminated, but not enough to threaten public health. More than 100 million people in the U.S., roughly 35% of the population, get [...]