Water utility customer satisfaction plunges as rates rise, J.D. Power finds According to the J.D. Power 2022 U.S. Water Utility Residential Customer Satisfaction Study, a six-year streak of improving or flat customer satisfaction with residential water utilities has come to an end. more

Reclamation Announces 2023 Funding Opportunity for Water and Energy Efficiency Grants Funds from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to help address water supply sustainability. more

 

It’s Time To Put Water On The Main Stage During the pandemic, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) released the 2021 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure. more

Water Is Food Celebrating Earth Day always reminds me of the great Arthur C. Clarke's observation that we shouldn't have called our planet "earth," but "ocean" instead — after all, it's mostly water. more

NRWA The Clean Watersheds Needs Survey and Small Communities (1 hour) June 16 The Clean Watersheds Needs Survey (CWNS) is conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to assess the capital costs (or “needs”) to meet the water quality goals of the Clean Water Act and address water quality-related environmental and public health concerns. more

EPA moves to reduce PFAS discharges into waterways U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials announced last week three steps they say will better protect communities from pollutants that are often called “forever chemicals” because they don’t break down easily in the environment or in our bodies. more

Portable tool can desalinate seawater using little power Researchers at MIT have produced a prototype water purifier that can turn cloudy seawater into drinking water using ~20Wh/litre. more

EPA Delivers on Three Water Commitments in the Agency’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing three actions to protect communities and the environment from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in our nation’s waters. more

NIST Study: Everyday Products Release Trillions Of Microplastics Into Water Plastics surround us, whether it’s the grocery bags we use at the supermarket or household items such as shampoo and detergent bottles. Plastics don’t exist only as large objects, but also as microscopic particles that are released from these larger products. more

Experts Predict This Hurricane Season Will Only Be Slightly Above Average For the seventh year in a row, University of Arizona hurricane forecasters say to prepare for an above-average hurricane season, which runs from June 1 through Nov. 30. However, this year isn't expected to be as active as recent years. more

ASDWA Pushes for Better Federal Coordination in Response to CEQ’s Climate and Economic Justice Tool In comments sent to the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) on April 25, ASDWA called for better coordination from all federal agencies to meet the Biden Administration’s Justice40 goals. CEQ took comments on the beta version of the Council’s Climate and Economic Justice Tool to determine potential updates to be made. more

MIT Engineers Created a Portable Device that Zaps Seawater to Make Drinking Water - Yahoo News A team of scientists at MIT have created a device that transforms brackish seawater into clean drinking water at the push of a button—and can be especially helpful for people living in seaside places like California who are dealing with climate change-fueled droughts. more

Small water systems struggle to access federal funding One of three drinking water wells for Llano Quemado, N.M, began pumping sand instead of water a few years ago. more

How smart is your sewer? Many wastewater collection system operators have successfully adopted capacity, management, operations, and maintenance (CMOM) activities to move from reactive operation and maintenance (O&M) to more proactive O&M activities. This publication identifies technologies that can be applied to further this movement into more preventive and even predictive O&M activities and continue to reduce reactive O&M. more

Support funding for water infrastructure in FY 2023 Write your Members of Congress to urge them to provide robust funding for water infrastructure funding programs in the fiscal year 2023 budget! more

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announces funding for red tide research, mitigation | News4Jax Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday announced nearly $14 million in the 2022-23 state budget will continue to support red tide research and mitigation technologies. more

Governor awards Panhandle grant money to combat changing climate | My Panhandle Sea level rise and intense tropical events remain high on the scale of impacts of climate change. more

DeSantis directs millions in resiliency funds to First Coast | WJCT St. Johns County and the rest of the First Coast are getting a hefty share of new grants awarded Tuesday that are meant to improve the resilience of coastal and near-coastal communities in the face of rising sea levels. more

New study finds links between red tide and ocean dead zones. And inspires a poem | WLRN New research documenting a grim connection between toxic red tides and ocean dead zones comes with an usual annotation: a poem. more

Water issues could delay or cancel building developments | WINK  City Manager Marty Lawing was told by officials that the city’s ability to provide water to development projects can’t be promised. more

Where is sewage at Bruce Beach coming from? ECUA considering task force to find out | Pensacola News Journal Emerald Coast Utilities Authorities board members said last week they want to work with the city to find the source of any potential sewage making its way into the water at Bruce Beach in downtown Pensacola. more

Upgrades set for Fla. county's wastewater treatment sites 'This is 20 years overdue': Polk County to add septage receiving stations at some wastewater plants. more

Florida sues DuPont, other companies over toxic firefighting foam - Tampa Bay Times Lawyers say the manufacturers exposed residents to harmful chemicals, commonly called PFAS. more

Reverse osmosis treatment plant under construction at Stuart water facility | TCPalm  A reverse osmosis treatment plant is under construction Wednesday, April 27, 2022, at the water treatment facility in Stuart. more

Florida city turns algae into fuel  The City of Altamonte Springs is piloting technology that it says could help solve the renewable energy crisis by transforming raw materials into fuel for cars, jets, trucks and more. more

A Florida congressman wants FEMA to provide emergency relief for algae outbreaks | WUSF Palm City Rep. Brian Mast says algae outbreaks should be treated by the federal government like responses to other natural disasters, such as hurricanes. more

FDEP rejects Gulf Breeze's initial penalty proposal for water contamination error | Pensacola News Journal  The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has rejected part of Gulf Breeze's initial in-kind penalty project proposal for the cross-connection error that contaminated drinking water at several hundred homes in the city's Soundside Drive neighborhood late last year. more

How's the water down there? Aquifer key to keeping Florida flush | Sustainable Tallahassee  Florida is unique in many ways. Its peninsula extends from the Georgia border approximately 390 miles to the southeast out into the ocean.

Rep. Demings Requests $19 Million in Federal Funding for 15 Central Florida Projects U.S. Representative Val Demings, who is currently running for Senate instead of re-election, announced formal requests for over $19 million in fiscal year 2023 federal funding for fifteen projects in Central Florida... more

Florida PSC Recognizes National Drinking Water Week - EIN New The Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) joins water professionals across the country, May 1-7, in recognizing National Drinking Water Week 2022 and the vital role water plays in our lives. more

FRWA Receives Support for Apprenticeship Program (December 17, 2021) Florida Rural Water Association is proud to announce that we have been awarded a grant for use in our apprenticeship program. more

Water managers in ever-growing Southwest Florida work to ensure the drinking water supply is safe | WUS F Southwest Florida prepares to meet the future water needs as 1,000 people move into the Sunshine State every day. Access to drinkable water has already reached a crisis level in places worldwide, which nonprofits and celebrities are working to fix. more

Panhandle sewer projects are among TaxWatch's 2022 'Budget Turkeys' | WFSU A state government watchdog group is urging Gov. Ron DeSantis to veto several local projects in communities across the Panhandle that were included in the legislature's budget. more

Millions in funds for the Panhandle could soon be released | My Panhandle Florida’s state budget is ready for Gov. Ron Desantis to sign, but DeSantis could still veto any project. more

Protecting Biscayne Bay | South Dade News Leader Miami-Dade County has released its annual Biscayne Bay Report Card, detailing the health of one of our most vital ecosystems and critical solutions to protect our clean water. more