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.

In this weeks news, a state budget impasse in Illinois means some utility bills have gone unpaid, and the winner of Tennessee's best tasting water is unveiled.