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This 1941 cover image shows workers on top of the drum gates of the mile-long Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State.

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee focused on infrastructure funding for rural communities, and ways to improve Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act water infrastructure provisions.

Administrator Lee Zeldin called for Mexico to work with the U.S. to finally end sewage flows from Tijuana into southern San Diego County. 

Feds to pull back more than $800 million in funds for resilient infrastructure projects, including those in planning and design phases. 

The project to raise the dam's height by 131 ft is 60% complete and was scheduled to finish in 2027. 

Big wastewater treatment site backup gas power plant is strongly opposed by residents of city already deemed a pollution-burdened community.

The Four Lakes Task Force says it now has all the permits to repair and reconstruct four Tittabawassee River dams.

The project includes linking the reservoir to a 350-mile pipeline network connecting to both the Colorado River and California aqueducts.

The latest transboundary wastewater flows threaten to delay the urgent repair, rerouting and rehabilitation of a pipe system on the Mexican side of the border serving wastewater treatment plants in both countries.

A $1.5-billion project to double the length of the Kentucky Lock—an expansion 25 years in the making—has reached a milestone with installation of final structural monoliths that form its core.