Mount Pleasant Waterworks (MPW) in South Carolina provides water and wastewater service to over 90,000 people in the Town of Mount Pleasant. NACWA awarded the Mount Pleasant Waterworks a 2022 National Environmental Achievement Award in the Operations & Environmental Performance category for its creative repurposing of a beloved, historic water infrastructure.

(Washington, DC) -- Today, members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee heard testimony from public clean water utility members of the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) during the Committee’s hearing, “Oversight of the Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund Formula”.

U.S. EPA released an Implementation Memo March 8 regarding the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds (SRF) provisions in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). As previously reported, the BIL is providing a total of $55 billion in new federal investment for water and wastewater over the next five years, much of which was directed by Congress to flow out through the SRFs.

Congressional appropriators released their long-awaited Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) Omnibus Appropriations package March 9 after months of working to come to a final agreement.

The Value of Water Campaign released a new toolkit this week that can help utilities in recruiting a more diverse water workforce, with a particular focus on attracting underrepresented groups such as women, younger employees and people of color.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments earlier this week over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulation of greenhouse gasses (GHGs) in the case of West Virginia v. EPA.