William Reilly, EPA Administrator during the first Bush administration, wrote an editorial in The New York Times published Nov. 28 about protecting the Clean Water Act against attempts to weaken it. Next year is the 40th anniversary of this landmark…
read moreYou've heard of bottled water. Introducing boxed water.A Grand Rapids, Mich.-based company bills itself as "part sustainable water company, part art project, part philanthropic project, and completely curious. Boxed Water Is Better, is a boxed water company."The description on its…
read moreThe Hill's Congress Blog had a recent post in which Gregory Baird, a former financial officer and CFO of large cities and utilities and who now consults utility financial staff on infrastructure asset management best practices in the U.S. and…
read moreThe village of Russells Point and Ohio RCAP were honored at the Ohio Conference of Community Development, Inc.’s summer meeting for their water treatment plant upgrade project, which involved installing granular activated carbon (GAC) to the existing treatment plant to…
read moreThe Climate-Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool (CREAT) supports water-sector utilities in conducting climate-related risk assessments, evaluating adaptation options, and understanding climate threats. EPA is currently delivering a nine-webinar series of training materials for CREAT that will continue through November 15…
read moreEPA is offering the first Energy-Management Webcast Series webcast on Reducing Operating Costs with Energy Use Assessments and Auditing on Thursday, December 1 at 1:00 PM Eastern. This webcast will focus on two key elements of energy management for utilitiesdetermining…
read morePublished Nov. 9By Paul Quinlan, E&E reporterThe EPA renewed and expanded a six-year-old agreement with industry and government organizations today aimed at improving the performance of septic systems.EPA and 16 partner organizations [including RCAP] signed a nonbinding memorandum of understanding…
read moreRCAP will join the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH) and other state/national rural stakeholders in marking the first-ever National Rural Health Day on Thursday, November 17.NOSORH created National Rural Health Day as a way to showcase…
read moreUpstate New York's Times Union newspaper reports in a Nov. 7 article that an emerging technology developed in Canada does away with the need for water in the process of extracting natural gas from the earth, popularly known as fracking.…
read moreEPA has published draft ambient-water quality criteria for the protection of aquatic life from the potential effects of carbaryl. Used to control insects, slugs and snails and to thin fruit in orchards, carbaryl can enter water bodies via runoff and…
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