Organizations and utilities across the country are doing a variety of public education activities on Oct. 12 to mark the third annual Imagine a Day Without Water

In this week’s news briefs, in the ongoing effort to conserve treated water, a California city finds a way to significantly limit how much water is lost to storm sewers during hydrant flushing, and a Florida city nears the end of a 12-year consent order to reduce overflows

In this week’s news briefs, the EPA invites utilities to apply for more than $2 billion in loans through the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act, and OSHA issues citations for an incident that killed three sewer workers in January

The web-based portal consolidates information about financing mechanisms and other resources that can help communities plan their projects

In this week’s news briefs, D.C. Water awards the contract for a 5-mile, $580 million tunnel project that will reduce overflows into the Anacostia River, and a Michigan city is adding defendants to its lawsuit over who should pay for the repairs of a collapsed sewer and large sinkhole that appeared this past Christmas Eve

Major water infrastructure improvements can come with major rate increases. How can utilities shield low-income customers from expenses they can’t afford?

West Virginia American Water tries a new method for shedding more light on how customers’ water bills turn into infrastructure improvements

AWWA’s Buried No Longer tool is a resource that utilities can use in planning for their own system’s upgrades, and the data will also be used to develop a national report about infrastructure needs

University research team creates interactive online map showing the various ways utilities have gotten creative with financing mechanisms

In this week’s news briefs, Kansas City, Missouri, installs its 100th mile of new water main since 2013, and OSHA fines a Massachusetts company $1.5 million for an incident that killed two sewer workers