Articles by J.J. Smith

“These investments will make drinking water systems more resilient to future storms, helping to ensure that communities have uninterrupted access to healthy water,” said NCDEQ Secretary Reid Wilson.

Authorized under the 2009 SECURE Water Act, the NGWMN is also used by the Bureau of Reclamation to report on risks to western water resources.

Cyber attackers have taken notice of the U.S. water and wastewater systems sector, “and utility size simply doesn’t matter” to the attackers, said Jennifer Lyn Walker, WaterISAC’s director of infrastructure cyber defense

“Due to the anti backsliding provision in the Safe Drinking Water Act, it is illegal for EPA to arbitrarily decide to repeal or weaken existing drinking water standards.”

EPA advises those planning to file a UIC grant application to contact their regional office for application information.

A BLM official advises the public to research nomination requirements—such as maximum acreage, acceptable land descriptions, and block nominations—before proposing land for competitive geothermal leasing.

The reasons provided by BLM for rescinding the regulations governing geothermal resources leasing vary with some rules designated as “no longer in use.

The Crescent Valley project could generate up to 30 megawatts, which is enough to power over 33,000 homes, BLM says.

The lack of an overall risk-based approach has resulted in municipalities and states establishing different water-quality parameters, including for E coli or fecal coliform that have been “highly variable."

EWAB says “Several factors must be prioritized to ensure production strength for the oil, natural gas, and geothermal industries.”