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The National Rural Water Association (NRWA) has detailed its Regional Partnership Program and released a white paper emphasizing voluntary, community-led approaches to water system consolidation and collaboration. The materials stress that benefits and viabil…
Read the full article →The National Rural Water Association has launched an Employer Incentivization Program to support workforce development in rural communities through federally registered apprenticeships in water and wastewater operations. Supported by the U.S. Department of La…
Read the full article →The National Security Agency issued an advisory warning that newly disclosed PHP vulnerabilities, collectively referred to as "PHP2Shell," pose a serious risk to internet-facing services that rely on the language. PHP released an open-source patch on October…
Read the full article →A new analysis by Food & Water Watch of the 500 largest U.S. community water systems finds that typical drinking water bills rose 62% between 2015 and 2025, adding nearly $200 a year to household costs on average. The study calculated annual bills based on 60…
Read the full article →The National Rural Water Association (NRWA) and WaterISAC announced a pilot program offering a free 12-month WaterISAC membership to qualifying water and wastewater systems. From July 16 to December 31, 2026, systems serving populations of 10,000 or fewer can…
Read the full article →The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality released the 2026 Triennial Review of Idaho Water Quality Standards. The document will guide water quality standards rulemaking and subprogram development over the next three years. Under Clean Water Act section 3…
Read the full article →The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a guidance document for state partners and utilities to help assess and strengthen public water systems’ ability to meet drinking water standards. The guidance is designed to support sanitary surveys by…
Read the full article →The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) convened a roundtable focused on the water sector workforce to address recruiting and retention needs and to identify ways to reduce barriers and improve interstate coordination. The Office of Water met with wate…
Read the full article →DEF CON Franklin and the National Rural Water Association launched the Water Watch Center to deliver managed cybersecurity support to small water and wastewater utilities. The initiative brings an initial group of five managed detection and response firms—Def…
Read the full article →On August 19, 2026, CISA, FBI, EPA and others released a joint cybersecurity advisory warning critical infrastructure owners and operators about an active campaign targeting Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers (PLCs). According to the advisory, t…
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