Category Archives: Texas
Water News as of September 19
Top Stories DC: The Environmental Protection Agency moved Tuesday to clarify Clean Water Act protections for small streams and wetlands that had been thrown into question by Supreme Court decisions over the past decade. The agency and the Army Corps of … Continue reading
Water News as of July 19
Top Stories Maryland: A water main break in the Prince George’s County will force authorities to shut-off water supplies for as many as four days to county residents who live along the southern edge of the Maryland-D.C. border. Unfortunately for county … Continue reading
Posted in Maryland, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia
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Water News as of July 3, 2013
Top Stories California: Raw sewage backed up into both clubhouse shower areas, the umpires’ room and all bathrooms on the clubhouse level, as well as both managers’ offices and the Mariners’ training room. The Angels filed a complaint about unsanitary … Continue reading
Posted in California, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin
Tagged aging infrastructure, business closures, clean water, epa, flooding, infrastructure needs, leaking infrastructure, obama infrastructure spending, raw sewage, service disruption, water main break, water pipeline
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Water News, January 9-15, 2013
Top Stories A leading organization of engineering professionals issued another warning Tuesday about the condition of the nation’s infrastructure, saying that current investment trends threaten millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in economic activity. A report commissioned by the … Continue reading
Posted in Arizona, California, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Uncategorized, Wisconsin
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Water News for Janurary 2-9, 2013
Top Stories Texas: Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst says water will be high on his agenda, advocating taking $1 billion from the Rainy Day Fund to create a water infrastructure development bank from which cities and counties could borrow for water … Continue reading
Posted in Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Texas, Uncategorized, Vermont, Washington
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News for December 18-25, 2012
Top News New Hampshire: The Governor’s Water Sustainability Commission’s report, issued December 24, estimates the state will need to invest $2.9 billion just to deal with the state’s aging infrastructure. The biggest challenge to the problem, the report said, could … Continue reading
Posted in Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington
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News for December 12-18, 2012
Top Stories The Senate Committee on Appropriations has released the text of the Fiscal Year 2012 Disaster Assistance Supplemental. The emergency spending within the bill provides $60.4 billion in discretionary funding, of which $810 million is allocated to EPA Water … Continue reading
Posted in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia
Tagged clean water, infrastructure needs, water infrastructure, water infrastructure funding, water main break
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