NACWA and the National Association of Water Companies (NAWC) are conducting a joint survey to assess the level of interest among their respective members in alternative delivery approaches to providing water and wastewater services (including public-private partnerships).

NACWA supported EPA’s proposed label language for sodium, calcium, and potassium hypochlorite products, which are used in swimming pools, hot tubs, and spas, in comments submitted on November 21.

NACWA members joined hundreds of public and private water utility representatives, technology providers, and regulators, among others at the American Water Summit, in Austin, TX, on November 29 - 30, to discuss a range of water-related issues—with a focus on ways for public and private interests to better collaborate.

Three individuals recommended by NACWA recently joined EPA’s Environmental Finance Advisory Board (EFAB). Tony Parrott, Executive Director of the Metropolitan Sewer District of Louisville, Kentucky and a NACWA Board Member, and Dan Kaplan, Financial Services Manager of King County, Washington, were appointed to the Board as part of the state and local government category.

NACWA participated in the most recent Infrastructure Working Group discussion on December 1, which was led by the Associated General Contractors (AGC) and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM).

NACWA participated in the third annual Jersey Water Works Conference, held in Newark, NJ on December 1.

Registration is now open for NACWA’S 2018 Winter Conference—February 6 – 9, in Napa, CA— which will address some of the most profound issues confronting the clean water sector as utilities continue to deal with increasingly complex regulatory challenges and more stringent standards.

Unlike many waterbodies in the United States, the Great Lakes pose unique opportunities and challenges. On one hand, its miles of coastline and open water provide a boon for economic activity and recreation. However, the challenges, such as addressing water quality concerns, are multi-faceted and require the coordination between numerous states, not to mention Canada.

Cooperative federalism became a recurring theme among the many critical legal issues addressed at the 2017 National Clean Water Law Seminar and National Water Enforcement Workshop last week in Savannah, GA, which drew clean water professionals from around the country.

NACWA provided oral comments November 14, during an EPA listening session on the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rulemaking. EPA is moving quickly with a two-step rulemaking process to first withdraw the 2015 Clean Water Rule and reinstate the regulatory regime that was in place prior to that rule; and second, to develop a new WOTUS definition.

NACWA joined with several other water sector organizations this week in a letter to Congressional Appropriators reiterating several important funding asks for the federal Fiscal Year 2018 (FY18) budget.