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The Senate has approved a spending bill for fiscal year 2002 containing millions of dollars for key New Mexico water and wastewater projects.

A 250-ton mechanical mole punched through the earth's surface recently, leaving in its wake a large-diameter tunnel, 8 miles long, to serve as a critical water line for Southern California.

Illinois Gov. George Ryan recently signed a bill that will ban the gasoline additive MTBE from Illinois beginning in 2004.

The EPA recently finalized its $111-million plan for containing and remediating contaminated ground water beneath the western side of the Aerojet Superfund site outside of Folsom, Calif.

The Senate recently voted to require the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to put new arsenic regulations into effect immediately.

Congress recently voted to require the EPA to put new arsenic regulations into effect immediately.

Many of the frontline troops in the environmental and governmental struggles over water in the drought-stricken southeast United States will be on hand at the Southeast FOCUS Ground Water Conference, Sept. 24-25 in Atlanta.

The EPA recently issued a final rule that will provide an estimated 35 million Americans with cleaner, safer drinking water.

According to an article in the Irvine World News, the Irvine Ranch Water District Board recently approved the long-sought agreement to clean up ground water contaminated by pollutants from the former El Toro air base in Orange County, Calif.

The EPA's National Center for Environmental Research is seeking research proposals by Sept. 17 from U.S. academic and nonprofit institutions and state and local governments for $6 million in grants earmarked for four areas of research on chemical and microbial drinking water contaminants.