In this week’s news briefs, the three-year emergency drought order is over in California but some water-use restrictions remain, and a Tennessee worker suffers second-degree burns in a sewer lining accident

Plans unveiled by the Trump Administration last week include elimination of a $498 million program that aids rural water and wastewater systems.

With one of the biggest events of 2016 rolling into town, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District saw an opportunity to showcase infrastructure. Here’s how the district greened up the city just in time for the Republican National Convention.