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Rural Water Policy Advisories 11/4/19 House Committee Passes Clean Water State Revolving Fund Reauthorization, Thank you Senator Inhofe - Chairman Inhofe Drops PFAS Provisions from Defence Bill Proposal,...more 10/28/19 House Committee to Mark Up Massive Reauthorization of Clean Water SRF (CWSRF), Looks for NRWA’s Support, NRWA Participated in EPA’s October 25, 2019, Intergovernmental Associations’ Regulatory Briefing for the Revised Lead and Copper Rule,...more 10/21/19 EPA to Expand Lead Rule Testing to Schools, Recent EPA Inspector General Report Could Help NRWA's Effort to Allow for Electronic Reporting of Disinfection Byproducts Rule Violation,...more 10/14/19 EPA Releases NEW Lead and Copper Rule, Presidential Candidates Sanders and Warren Reject Privatized Water Systems,...more 10/7/19 EPA to Announce NEW Lead and Copper Rule, Biosolids as Fertilizer Questioned,...more 9/30/19 Senator Barrasso (WY) Stands Up for Small and Rural Communities Against House Effort to Extend Superfund Liability to You for PFAS,...more 9/23/19 WOTUS & PFAS Collision in House Hearing, Maui Withdraws Their Supreme Court Water Case,...more 9/16/19 EPA Administrator Tweets About Speech at NRWA Conference, Senate Begins Water Resource Legislation,...more 9/9/19 New EPA Perchlorate Rule, New Drinking Water Rules for PFAS,... more 9/2/19 Florida Rural Water Association (FRWA) Activates Emergency Response for Dorian...more 8/26/19 U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Schedules Oral Arguments for Maui Indirect Groundwater Discharge Case, Flint in Violation of Lead and Copper Rule for Monitoring, Blames State,...more 8/19/19 NRCS Chief Tours Delaware Conservation District’s Successes,...more 8/11/19 NRWA Source Water Protection and New Farm Bill, EPA “Exceeded” Its Goals of Cutting Regs,...more 8/5/19 EPA Issues New Security Guidance and Security Templates, Michigan Congressman Opposes Exempting Communities from Potential Superfund Liability from PFAS,...more 7/29/19 Private Water Companies Lobby for Preferential Legislation in Senate to Consolidate Small Communities - Illinois EPA Issues Several Violations Against Aqua Illinois for Lead Rule Violations,...more 7/22/19 Senators Float Consolidation Legislation, EPA Announces Policy to Improve Enforcement and Compliance by Partnering with States,...more 7/15/19 House Passes PFAS Legislation - NRWA Engages Sponsors with Concerns, Flint Crisis Gets Gov. Snyder De-platformed from Harvard,...more 7/8/19 House to Take Up PFAS Legislation, EPA Water Official Warns of Aging Water Workforce, Michigan to Add Fifth Liter Sampling for their Lead Testing,...more 7/1/19 Senate Passes PFAS Legislation, NRWA Will Be Urging that All The Beneficial PFAS Provisions be Included in the House Version,...more 6/17/19 Special Single Issue Edition: The Senate’s Comprehensive PFAS Legislation,...more 6/10/19 USDA’s NRCS Issues Guidance to State Conservationists and State Technical Committees on Preparing for Source Water Protection Activities By September 30, 2019,...more 6/2/19 Four Observations Regarding EPA's Proposed Perchlorate Rule,...more 5/27/19 Perchlorate Releases “Proposed” Perchlorate Regulation, Senate Hearing to Examining Legislation to Address the Risks Associated with Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances,...more 5/20/19 Special Single Issue Edition: PFAS Issues in Congress,...more 5/13/19 House and Senate Members Compelled to Introduce Numerous PFAS Bills, The House Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee to Hold Hearing This Week on PFAS Legislation,...more 5/6/19 Some in Congress Want to Mandate PFAS MCL, Some in Congress Want to Ban Asbestos - Raising Concerns of Chlorine Production,...more 4/29/19 EPA Region 6’s Rural Water Issues Conference May 21-22, The Legality of In-home Lead Monitoring,...more 4/22/19 EPA Clarifies NPDES Protection as Supreme Court to Take-Up County of Maui Case,...more 4/15/18 EPA Administrator Tells Congress that WIFIA Funding Increase Makes up for Funding Cuts to State Revolving Funds Because WIFIA Is More Innovative,...more 4/8/19 Fifty Three Members of Congress Sign Letters to EPA and USDA Appropriations Committee in Support of Rural Water Funding Priorities,...more 4/1/19 Senate PFAS Hearing, PFAS in Biosolids,EPA Announces Changes in SRFs Supported by NRWA Past President,...more 3/25/19 EPA’s New Administrator Says Drinking Water is Top Issue, Congressional Attention to Water Rate Affordability Raises Concerns About Federal Role In Local Water Rates,...more 3/18/19 Another Opportunity for House of Representatives Members to Support Small and Rural Communities - and State Rural Water Associations,...more 3/4/19 New Clean Water Act Technical Assistance, New Farm Bill Source Water Protection Provisions,...more 2/25/19 Vice President Al Gore Travels to Rural Alabama to Rally Against Environmental Injustices Related to Sewer Service, EPA Notifies NRWA of Environmentalist's Lawsuit to Force EPA to Set Numerous New MCLs,...more 2/18/19 On Friday, the President signed into law the final fiscal year 2019 appropriations bills which included all NRWA funding priorities,...more 2/11/19 NRWA Washington Rally a Success, Rural Water Included in President’s State of the Union Audience,...more 2/4/19 Rural Water Takes to Congress on February 5th to Exercise our First Amendment right in the United States Constitution to Assemble and Petition, and Present Requests to Congress Without Retribution,...more 1/28/19 EPA Administrator (Nominee) Thanks President for Reopening EPA, Florida Rural Water Association Documents Emergency Response Activities,...more 1/21/19 New EPA Administrator-nominee Testifies Before Senate and Makes New Drinking Water Regulations the Main Issue, NRWA Urges Congress to Fund $1 Billion in USDA Rural Water Grants and Loans this Congress,...more 1/14/19 All Community Water Systems (CWSs) Serving More Than 3,300 Persons MUST Conduct a New Risk & Resiliency Assessment (RRA) and Emergency Response Plan (ERP) by July 2021,...more 1/7/19 NPR Implies Shutdown Threatens Drinking Water Safety, Democrats Take Over House of Representatives and Take Aim at Trump Environmental Rule and Rollbacks,...more 12/31/18 EPA Runs Out of Money, Set to Furlough 13,705 Employees, Reminder About Who Keeps the Public’s Water Safe,...more 12/24/18 Rural Water’s Power of an Association 2018 Retrospective, Highlights from 2018 Rural Water’s Accomplishments,...more 12/17/18 The Power of An Association; Farm Bill 2018 Includes all NRWA Priorities, EPA And Army Propose New "Waters of the United States" Definition,...more 12/10/18 NRWA Representative Wilmer Melton Participates at EPA National Drinking Water Advisory Council,...more 12/2/18 The Best Rural Water Ideas Come from the Membership, American Water, the Main Corporate Water Company Pressing for Consolidation of Small Communities to Aide in Compliance, Issues Boil Order in Pennsylvania,...more 11/26/18 NRWA Urges EPA to Clarify the Constitutionality of the Safe Drinking Water Act, NRDC Agrees To EPA Extension Of Perchlorate Water Standard Deadline,...more 11/19/18 EPA’s Request for Comment on Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances,...more 11/12/18 EPA Responds to the 39 U.S. Senators Who Wrote EPA in July Urging the Agency to Follow the Law in Providing Technical Assistance, Baltimore Becomes First Major City to Ban Privatization,...more 11/5/18 Wisconsin Rural Water Groundwater Contamination Becomes Top Governor's Race Campaign Issue, The Argument Against Using the Safe Drinking Water Act for PFAS in Drinking Water,...more 10/29/18 The Consolidation Issue and the Recently Passed “America's Water Infrastructure Act”,...more 10/22/18 Florida Rural Water Association Coordinates Recovery in Mexico Beach and Panama City, Top EPA Official Suspended for “Defending Children’s Health,” Claims Trump EPA Doesn’t Care About Children,...more 10/15/18 Hurricane Michael, Senate Passes "Rural Water Friendly" Water Bill, President to Sign Soon,...more 10/8/18 Senate Expected to Pass "Rural Water Friendly" Water Bill on Wednesday, EPA Administrator Says Agency will Release New WOTUS Rule Within 30 Days,...more 10/1/18 NRWA Regulatory Committee Chairman Presses EPA on Relief for DBP Violations' Public Notices, President Signs Bill to Extend End of Fiscal Year to December 7, Avoiding Any Possible Government Shutdown Until After November Elections,...more 9/24/18 On September 10, The House & Senate Water Committee Leaders Announced a Comprehensive Water Resources Infrastructure Bill,...more 9/17/18 Hurricane Florence, Last Week, House & Senate Water Committee Leaders Announced a Comprehensive Water Resources Infrastructure Bill,...more 9/10/18 Rural Water Clean Water Act Technical Assistance Provision, EPA Explains PFAS Drinking Water Plans at House Hearing,..more 9/3/18 NRWA Defends State Revolving Funds in Congress, State SRFs are preferred to the status quo WIFIA program...more 8/27/18 NRWA to Question EPA on UCMR4 Burden, When Complying with EPA Rules Puts the Public in More Danger,...more 8/19/18 Senate and House Expecting to Expedite Conference of WRDA Bill in the Coming Weeks, NRWA Supports EPA Proposal to Make Data and Science Used for EPA Rules to be Made Public,...more 8/13/18 How to Make Water Bills Affordable, AWWA New Affordability Policy, Should the Federal Government Mandate Customers Assistance Program,...more 8/6/18 Senate Adjourns for August Without Action on Rural Water-Friendly WRDA Bill, MO Rural Water to the Rescue, New EPA Administrator Tells U.S. Senate that President Told Him to Prioritize Clean Water,...more 7/30/18 New Peer-Reviewed and Published Arsenic Study Contradicts EPA's Arsenic Risk Assessments, EPA PFAS Public Meeting in Horsham, Pennsylvania,...more 7/23/18 Senators Standing Up for Rural and Small Communities, Stand Up to EPA, Is Rural Water Optimistic about the New EPA Administrator?,...more 7/16/18 U.S. Senators Stand Up for Rural and Small Communities, Former NRWA Regulatory Committee Chairman John Sasur (MA) Asked About the New EPA Chief’s Knowledge of Rural Water,...more 7/9/18 EPA Administrator Resigns; What Does it Mean for Rural Water?, EPA Technical Assistance Funding,...more 7/2/18 Senate Passes Farm Bill with "ALL" Rural Water Priorities, All Senators Urged to Co-sign Barrasso Letter to Fix EPA Technical Assistance Funding,...more 6/25/18 Fix EPA Funding Update: All Senators Can Help Fix It, What Needs to be Fixed?,...more 6/18/18 Power of An Association, Last Week’s Rural Water Accomplishments,...more 6/11/18 Senate and House Both Advancing Water Development Bills, NRWA Strongly Backing Senate Version, Section 5004. Technical Assistance for Treatment Works,...more 6/4/18 NRWA’s Effort to Turn “ Mandatory Consolidation ” into Something Acceptable, Private Water Industry’s Lobbying Tactics,...more 5/29/18 Rural Water to Reject Calls for Safe Drinking Water Act Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances,...more 5/21/18 Power of An Association, Last Week’s Rural Water Accomplishments, House Rebukes Plastic Pipe Industry Campaign to Limit Water Project Design,...more 5/14/18 Rural Water is Only Water Association Invited to Testify at Wednesday’s Senate Hearing on New Bipartisan Water Legislation,...more 5/7/18 The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Invites Dennis Sternberg with Arkansas Rural Water Association to Testify,...more 4/30/18 Thanks to Mississippi Representative Gregg Harper and Idaho Representative Mike Simpson, NRDC Files Formal Intent to Sue to Enforce Lead and Copper Rule in the City of Newark, New Jersey,...more 4/23/18 Did EPA Follow the Law in Awarding Technical Assistance Funding?, Flint Passes Resolution Asking State for Over $6.1 Million to Fund Water and Sewer Credits,...more 4/16/18 House Farm Bill Great for Rural Water, The Power of an Association,...more 4/9/18 Environmental Justice Cautions Public on WIFIA’s Merits, Criticism of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Dominates News,...more 4/2/18 CNN's Dr. Gupta Goes to Martin County (KY) to Highlight Undrinkable Water, Cyberattack Brings Atlanta to Standstill,...more 3/26/18 Congress Passes and President Signs Massive Increase in Rural Water Funding, The Power of an Association,...more 3/19/18 Campaign to Save USDA Rural Water Funding Success, Senators Question EPA on Allowing Small Communities to Delivery Tier 2 Notice with Internet,...more 3/12/18 NRWA to EPA on LCR, House of Representatives Rural Water Dear Colleague Letters,...more 3/5/18 U.S. Representatives Hanabusa (HI) and Katko (NY) Sponsor Dear Colleague Letter to Support All Rural Water Funding, Utah Rural Water Urges Senator Lee to Withdraw His Opposition to Senators Wicker (MS) and Heitkamp’s (ND) Bill to Allow More Clean Water Act Technical Assistance,...more 2/26/18 NRWA’s Regulatory Committee Crafting Recommendations for Revisions to the Lead and Copper Rule...more 2/19/18 White House Budget Proposes Elimination of USDA Rural Water Initiatives Again, EPA to Brief NRWA on Changes to the Lead and Copper Rule on February 21...more 2/5/18 NRWA Legislative Committee Minutes, February 3, 2018, Washington DC...more 1/29/18 Senator Udall Co-Signs Bill to Allow Clean Water State Revolving Funds to be used for Rural Water Technical Assistance, Plastic Pipes' Campaign to Limit Local Control in Water Project Design Moving to Congress,...more 1/22/18 Rural Water Technical Assistance Initiatives to Continue during Shutdown,...more 1/15/18 NRWA President Urges EPA to Reform Lead and Copper Rule, Congress to Extend Fiscal Year as Friday Shutdown Approaches,...more 1/8/18 Congress to Extend Fiscal Year 2018 Spending Measure Again, A Thought on the Lead and Copper Rule,...more 1/1/18 Buyer’s Remorse of WIFIA?, Trump Administration Prepares to Unveil Infrastructure Financing Package,...more 12/25/17 E.P.A. Officials, Disheartened by Agency’s Direction, Are Leaving in Droves, Maine Television News Features Emergency Water Supply Crisis Training,...more 12/18/17 NRWA Invited by EPA to Review Lead and Copper Rule with Local Government Organizations, Congress Set to Pass Another Funding Extension Until January 19,...more 12/11/17 Congress and President Agree to Keep Government Open for Another Two Weeks,...more 12/4/17 NRWA’s Regulatory Committee Adopts New Policies, NDWAC to Meet This Week,...more 11/27/17 House Energy and Commerce Committee Releases Report Explaining the New Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments Legislation,...more 11/20/17 IRWA & URWA Stand Up Against Forced Consolidation, NRWA Launches National Partnership to Train Future Water Workers,...more 11/6/17 NRWA Engages on Mandatory Consolidation Provision, USDA Announces Rural Development State Directors,...more 10/30/17 Flint the Movie, Republicans to Release Tax Bill, FBI Warns of Cyber Attacks on Critical Infrastructure,...more 10/23/17 Video on the Importance of Emergency Response Preparation, EPA Announces FY 2017 Technical Assistance Grant....more 10/16/17 NRWA Presses EPA Inspector General to Look at EPA’s Public Notice Regulations, Should EPA Start Giving Money to Low-income Customers to Help Pay for Water Bills?....more 10/9/17 Hurricane Nate weakens to a tropical storm, NRWA Responds to EPA Investigator’s Review of EPA’s Public Notice Rules...more 10/2/17 KRWA Stands Up for Rural Development Water Programs in U.S., Puerto Ricans Seek The Water To Survive...more 9/25/17 NRWA Annual Conference Concludes, KRWA to Testify before House of Representatives on Thursday...more 9/18/17 Updates from around the country, FRWA's Irma recovery efforts, and...more 9/7/17 Dear Valued Customer / Partner: As you are all aware, our country in the midst of one of, if not the largest natural disasters on record with the landing of hurricane Harvey...more 9/5/17 Hurricane Harvey Epilogue: The Texas Rural Water Association dispatched five generators in the field last week and reported on Wednesday that after a couple of days in the Corpus Christi area...more 8/28/17 Hurricane Harvey: The Texas Rural Water Association mobilized their “Rural Water Emergency Assistance Cooperative,”...more 8/21/17 Kansas Rural Water Calls Out Environmental Working Group, EWG is promoting the sale of water filters, ...more 8/14/17 NRWA Praises New EPA Approach to Improve Drinking Water Safety, House to Move on Appropriations Bills, Environmentalists Sue to Stop President's Executive Order...more 8/7/17 North Carolina Rural Water Assoc. (NCRWA) Executive Director Stands Up for his Membership: In an interview...more 7/31/17 U.S. House of Representatives Advances Amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act...more 7/24/17 Brian MacManus Testifies, Fixing EPA Technical Assistance Funding, The Senate Follows the House and Declares Support and Funding for USDA’s Rural Water Initiatives...more 7/17/17 NRWA’s Regional Water Solutions Initiative Pays off in Congress, House Committee Approves NRWA-Supported Compromise…more 7/10/17 Privatizing Your Drinking Water Utility, Hackers Breach over a Dozen U.S. Power Plants, Louisiana Chlorine Leak Impacts Four…more 6/19/17 The Power of an (Idaho) Association: At the new EPA Administrator’s first Congressional hearing on Thursday, Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson made EPA funding for rural water technical assistance a priority issue...more 6/14/17 Senators Wicker (MS), Heitkamp (ND), Barrasso (WY), Duckworth (IL), Boozman (AR), and Enzi (WY) Finalize Letter to New EPA Administrator Urging a Fix for EPA Technical Assistance Initiative: The six senators...more 5/26/17 Clearly, He Intends to Prioritize Infrastructure,’’ says Republican Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming: On Tuesday, the President released his...more 5/22/17 NRWA President Testifies in House of Representatives: Steve Fletcher, NRWA President from Illinois, explained what would be most helpful for rural and small communities in any new national infrastructure program. Fletcher also set the record straight for the House's drinking water committee on issues of small community consolidation, privatization, technical assistance, state revolving funds (SRF), etc. Other water groups urged the committee...more 4/28/17 Congress Averts Government Shutdown with Week-long Continuing Resolution: House leaders plan to release a bill as early as Sunday night (April 30th)....more 4/24/17 Appropriations Deadline Looms: Congress returns this week and lawmakers will be racing to complete a spending package for the rest of...more 4/17/17 Illinois Rural Water Association (IRWA) in Discussions with Senator Tammy Duckworth on a Potential U.S. Senate Dear Colleague Campaign to Support USDA Rural Water Funding:...more 4/10/17 Senate Committee Passes Rural Water Clean Water Technical Assistance Bill, S. 518 (U.S. Senate)...more 4/3/17 Power of an Association in the U.S. Senate: On March 28, Arkansas Rural Water’s Dennis Sternberg told Congress that small and rural communities rely on...more 3/27/17 NRWA Campaign to Save USDA - Week One: On March 16, the President proposed to eliminate the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Water & Waste Disposal Loan & Grant Program...more 3/20/17 President’s Budget Eliminates Rural Water: On March 16, the President released his “America First” Budget (text). Page 12 includes...more 2/6/17 Rural Water Rally 2017 Special Single Issue Edition Rural Water Comes to Congress: NRWA’s annual Rural Water Rally will begin today in Washington, DC. Your brothers and sisters in the rural water movement will spend the week in the Halls of Congress urging all Members of the House of...more 1/20/17 President Trump Highlights Infrastructure Issues in Inaugural Speech (WashTimes)....more 1/09/17 House Passes Bill to Rein in Federal Regulations: On January 5th, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 26, the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act. The bill would...more 1/02/17 The Washington Post Reports Russia Hacked the Electrical Grid in Vermont - Electric Utility Clarifies: On Friday, the Post claimed, "A code...more 12/19/16 The Electoral College’s Rural Voice: Electors are to meet Monday to vote for the next President. Some electors “say they are defending rural and small-town America against...more 12/12/16 - Congress Ends With Water Bills: In the final hours of this Congressional session, the Senate passed the ‘‘Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act’’ -- the ‘‘WIIN Act.’’ The nearly $12 billion measure authorizes 30 new Army Corps of Engineers infrastructure projects around the country and now heads to the President’s desk. ...more 12/5/16 Congress to Pass Massive New Water Legislation this Week: Congressional leaders are expressing optimism...more 11/28/16 House, Senate Appropriations Panels to Pass New Continuing Resolution (CR): Congress returns to work...more 11/23/16 UPDATE: POLITICS | Wed Nov 23, 2016 | 8:30am EST.... Judge blocks Obama rule extending overtime pay to 4.2 million U.S. workers...more 11/21/16 Congress to Extend Appropriations Bill into Trump Administration: House and Senate Republican leaders agreed...more 11/7/16 Election Day Cybersecurity/Terror Update: Government officials fear large-scale internet assault on Election Day. Government officials are launching...more 10/24/16 EPA OIG Concludes EPA Had Emergency Authority to Act in Flint: EPA's inspector general released a report on Thursday finding that EPA had sufficient authority and information...more 10/10/16 Rural Water Associations Respond to Hurricane Matthew: “FRWA preparations began on Thursday in anticipation of Hurricane Matthew. FRWA made sure...more 10/3/16 New York Times - "About one in five American homes are not on city sewer lines — the legacy of rural poverty has left its imprint...more 9/26/16 Did Senator Wicker Fix It? At the request of Mississippi and Kansas Rural Water Associations, Senator Wicker (MS) has been urging EPA to allow for electronic delivery of Tier II...more 9/19/16 NRWA's New President Emphasizes “We” Can Succeed: Steve Fletcher, General Manager of...more 9/6/16 Special Single Issue Edition: Rural Water Emergency Response...more 8/29/16 Rural Water Continues to be First Responder for Water Utilities Impacted by Natural Disasters...more 8/22/16 Louisiana Rural Water Association (LRWA) Responds to Flooding: On Friday, LRWA's Pat Creduer said...more 8/15/16 EPA's Science Advisory Board (SAB) Question's EPA Conclusion that Fracking is...more 8/8/16 Alabama Rural Water Warns New IRS Proposal to Change...more 8/1/16 What Does Local Government Think of EPA's Water Program?: Last week...more 7/25/16 The Next President on EPA: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would seek to purge the federal government of...more 7/11/16 House Democrats Urge Reauthorization of Safe Drinking Water Act: The top Democrats on the House drinking water committee...more 7/5/16 Senator Inhofe Presses U.S. Senate to Pass Massive Water Infrastructure Bill: The Oklahoma Senator took to the Senate floor on Wednesday...more 6/27/16 NRWA Presses Senate to Take up Water Bill: Senator Inhofe (OK) is urging the Senate Leadership to...more 6/20/16 Thanks for the Memories: Thank you for rural water photos of aging and deteriorating water infrastructure submitted last week (including this fish in the bar screen photo...more 6/13/16 Tell Me Your Problems: The U.S. Senate is planning to consider a massive water bill, S. 2848 - the 2016...more 5/31/16 House Moves EPA Appropriations Bill: A House Appropriations Committee subcommittee on Wednesday approved the...more 5/23/16 The Power of An Association Comes to the U.S. Senate by way of Kansas. Last week...more 5/16/16 NRWA Participates at the Convening of National Collaborative to Remove Lead Water Lines:...more 5/9/16 World Focuses on Flint's Drinking Water Compliance with EPA Lead Rule: President...more 5/2/16 The “Power of an Association” Comes to the U.S. Senate: The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved...more 4/25/16 EPA Administrator testifies before the Senate (April 21, 2016) explaining that they will fund $64 million for small and rural...more 4/11/16 The Power of An Association Comes to the U.S. Senate: Thanks to ... more 4/4/16 Nevada, Mississippi, Utah and Alaska Rural Water Stand Up for Rural Water: These states all received...more 3/28/16 EPA Tells Congress It Has $42 Million for Assisting Small Communities, But None for...more 3/21/16 NRWA Regulatory Committee Standing Up for You: Today, the committee released its policy memorandum...more 3/14/16 Louisiana Rural Water Association Responds to Flooding: Record Louisiana floods continue. LRWA reports they have dispatched...more 3/7/16 Flint Water Hero Takes to CSPAN to Blame EPA on the Same Day (Feb. 29) EPA Announces...more 2/29/16 Tornado Destruction Report from LRWA: Tornado kills three, injures dozens in Louisiana and...more 2/22/16 It Is Up to Congress to Fix EPA: The effort to have Congress fund the Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Assistance Act is centered on...more 2/15/16 RALLY Success: State association representatives met with each of their Congressmen and Senators last week to encourage action on Rural Water funding...more 2/8/16 Special Single Issue Edition: The Power of an Association Comes to Washington, DC...more 2/2/16 We wanted to make you aware of the attached legislation that was introduced yesterday in the Senate. Below is a...more 2/01/16 Special Single Issue Edition: What Does Flint Mean to Rural Water?...more 1/25/16 Flint Update Michigan, EPA Fight Over Drinking Water: EPA announced in an emergency order Thursday that it plans to take over lead sampling in Flint after sharply criticizing...more 1/18/16 EPA Announced FY 2015 Training and Technical Assistance Funding Awards: Of the total $12.7 million appropriated by Congress to help your states' small and rural communities, EPA...more 1/11/16 New Report Links West Virginia Chemical Spill To Water Privatization: The Civil Society Institute/Boston Action Research concludes that West Virginia American Water (WVAW), a subsidiary of the American Water Company, was unprepared...more 12/28/15 The Power of An Association Ends for 2015 Funding Accomplishments: Congress continued all rural water initiatives (circuit riders, source water, wastewater techs., and EPA technical...more 12/21/15 Congress Finalizes Appropriations Bills: Congress approved a $1.1 trillion spending package on Friday that avoids...more 12/14/15 The Power of An Association, North Dakota Rural Water's President Obama Connection: On Friday evening, North Dakota Rural Water (NDRW) told us that "the President signed...more 12/7/15 Congress Passes EPA Funding Reform Bill and Sends to President Obama: On November 30th, the House of Representatives approved...more 11/30/15 Wyoming, Utah and Washington Rural Water Associations Change the Politics of WIFIA: After Congressional contacts from Washington, Wyoming, Utah rural water associations, news reports...more 11/23/15 - NRWA's Fix EPA Funding Campaign Advances: The House of Representatives’ Energy and Commerce Committee reports, "On November 18, 2015, the Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously passed...more 11/16/15 - EPA Funding Fix Progresses: On Friday, Kirby Mayfield (MsRWA) was told by Congressman Harper (MS)...more 11/02/15 - House Subcommittee Passes EPA Technical Assistance Funding Fix Bill: On Wednesday, the Environment and the Economy Subcommittee (Chaired by Rep. John Shimkus, IL) approved...more 10/30/15 - "Of the Billions of Dollars Provided to EPA, Small and Rural Communities see the Most Benefit from...more 10/19/15 - Congress Returns: With eight weeks left in the Congressional session, lawmakers confront two possible... more 10/12/15 - E-reporting of DBP Public Notices Versus Mailing Them more... 10/05/15 - The Power of (a State) Association more... 9/28/15 - State Associations Press for EPA Funding Reform more... 9/13/15- Brinkmanship more... 9/7/15 - Congress Returns to face end of Fiscal Year, more... 8/30/15- Sampling of Mississippi primacy more... 8/24/15- EPA Can't Consider Risk more... 8/17/15- Is Tier Two Public Notice more... 8/10/15- The Power of an Association more... 8/3/15- Congress Recesses more... 7/26/15- Campaign to fix EPA funding more... 7/19/15- NRWA Stands Up for SRF Update more... 7/12/15- Campaign to fix EPA Funding Moves to House more... 7/06/15 - Lead & Copper Rule Deliberation Wraps Up and more... 6/22/15 - Congress Produces Appropriations Bill and more... |
