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This bimonthly feature highlights the hottest news stories of recent months as published in WaterWeek. Topics covered include: water supply interests opposed to applying Clean Water Act (CWA) discharge permit requirements to routine water transfers have failed to convince the Supreme Court to overturna lower court ruling that ordered New York City to obtain just such a permit; a legal accord between two leading manufacturers of ultraviolet (UV) disinfectiontechnology grants Trojan Technologies worldwide immunity from all current and futurelegal action related to patents held by Calgon Carbon Corporation; legal arguments made by Portland, Oregon, challenging certain requirements of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA)Long-Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (LT2ESWTR) amount to "littlemore than a quarrel over the fine points of USEPA's cost and risk estimates," thegovernment asserts in defense of the rule; communities across North America are at a turning point in financing the replacementof aging water and wastewater infrastructure, concluded a panel of experts on the finalday of a three-day conference in Atlanta; highlighting a deepening divide between the White House and Congress over waterinfrastructure funding, a House committee marked up legislation that would authorize$20 billion over five years for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) two days after the Bush administration submitted its fiscal year (FY) 2008 budget seeking again tocut the fund by $200 million; funding for US Department of Agriculture (USDA) loans and grants for rural water andwaste disposal projects would jump to $1.5 billion under the White House budget requestfor FY2008; unhappy with USEPA's proposed budget cuts for FY2008, state environmental officialshave set forth a budget-neutral alternative that would boost grants to help statesimplement federal programs and support infrastructure improvements; a coalition of 14 water agencies fromHawaii to Florida has formed to seekgreater federal funding to develop newwater supplies through recycling, desalination,and groundwater reclamation; and, the biggest problem with water security is that the utilities that need information onsecurity threats can't always get it, concludes a National Research Council (NRC) panel ina newly released assessment of the agency's water security research program.

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Edition: Vol. 99 - No. 7 Published: 07/01/2007 Number of Pages: 14 File Size: 1 file , 100 KB