NACWA recently joined a coalition of wastewater utilities seeking to intervene in litigation brought by an environmental organization in the US District Court for the Western District of Missouri challenging the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) approval of Missouri’s newly adopted “Combined Criteria Approach” for aquatic life nutrient criteria in lakes.

EPA released its Draft Technical Support Document for Implementing the 2019 Recommended Human Health Recreational Ambient Water Quality Criteria or Swimming Advisories for Microcystins and Cylindrospermopsin on December 16, 2019.

NACWA asked EPA to consider aquatic impacts of pet flea shampoos and treatments that contain pyrethroid and pyrethrin chemicals.

In support of its advocacy efforts on behalf of the public clean water sector, NACWA’s leadership and staff regularly field questions from members of the national, local and trade press to provide insight and expert analysis on clean water-related topics.

EPA released its annual Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act report last week, highlighting the data-driven process behind the 14 loans made to public water utilities throughout 2019.

The Water Environment Federation released their guidance documents on the coronavirus earlier this week. With research on the topic still being developed and with global attention on the pandemic, NACWA’s partners in the water sector put together guidance documents on how the water sector can approach the issue.