Items Tagged with 'drinking water'

US Environmental Protection Agency wants to maintain legally enforceable limits on the most-studied types of "forever" chemicals known as PFAS but would roll back standards established for four other types, including GenX. 

Federal agency is reallocating $1.1 billion in funding after revised inventories cut estimated number of lead service lines in half, reshaping 2026 project pipelines and raising stakes for utilities and contractors. 

Meeting the challenge of growing facility demand with public funds threatened and the persistent problem of PFAS contamination were key focuses of the American Water Works Association annual meeting.

Local and national advocates urge the city to take immediate action to address elevated levels of lead in lines carrying tap water found in some homes. 

Biden administration announced Oct. 8 $2.6 billion more for that effort, distributed through drinking water state revolving funds and added to $15 billion funded through the federal infrastructure law.

Water groups fear the chemicals' new classification as hazardous substances will leave them open to lawsuits from PFAS producers. 

New contaminant levels for two key PFAS chemicals, each 4 parts per trillion, are near the current U.S. practical detection limit, industry expert tells ENR, but EPA says more federal funding and added compliance time would boost fixes by drinking water systems.

Total includes $3.2 billion for drinking water state revolving funds and $2.6 billion for clean water SRFs.

Adding a common type of thermally sensitive crystals could help extend the life of desalination plant membranes, according to new research.

Water systems, and their design and construction experts, boost efforts to eliminate contamination from ubiquitous 'forever’ chemicals, a key component of widely used firefighting foam runoff—as federal rules, technologies and costs catch up.