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This bimonthly roundup features highlights of the hottest news stories of recent months as reported in Waterweek, AWWA's weekly newsletter to member utilities. Topics covered include: a proposed water transfer rule that would specifically exclude transfers of surface waters not subject to intervening industrial, municipal, or commercialuse from Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 402 NationalPollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting requirements; a federal appeals court ruling affirming its earlier holding that CWA dischargepermitting requirements apply to a New York City water transfer casts doubt on US Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA)case for excluding such transfers from point-source permitting; states and water systems subject to the Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) would have toimplement seven targeted improvements in monitoring, public education, and lead serviceline (LSL) replacement requirements under a proposed rule signed by USEPA on July 6 that aims to correct deficiencies identified under the agency's nationalreview of implementation problems since the 15-year-old rule was last revised in 2000;USEPA this summer released numerous guidance documents to help water systemscomply with several rules, including the recently adopted Stage 2 Disinfectants/Disinfection Byproducts Rule (D/DBPR) and Long-Term 2 Enhanced Surface WaterTreatment Rule (LT2ESWTR); efforts to advocate benefits of conserving water got a big boost with USEPA's June 12launch of WaterSense, a voluntary public-private partnership to promote water-savingproducts, services, and practices, and follows the establishmentof the Chicago-based Alliance for Water Efficiency (AWE), a nonprofit organizationdevoted to promoting water efficiency; several million Americans could be experiencing episodes of gastrointestinal illness frommicrobial contaminants in public drinking water supplies each year, according to acollection of research reports that comprise a congressionally mandated national estimateof endemic waterborne disease occurrence in the United States, andrepresent the work of more than 30 authors from USEPA, the Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention (CDC), and elsewhere, and were published in a special issue ofthe Journal of Water and Health from the International Water Association include twothat make estimates using two different approaches; and, as USEPA nears promulgation of a rule aiming to reduce health risks associated withconsumption of public supplies of groundwater, research to estimate the risk of pediatricillness linked to groundwater is gearing up in 14 Wisconsin communities, and a team of researchers,supported by a $1.8 million grant from USEPA, is being led by MarkBorchardt from the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation and will conduct a randomizedintervention trial that will assess occurrence among children of fevers and gastrointestinalillness in communities that use chlorinated or unchlorinated groundwater.

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Edition:

Vol. 98 - No. 11

Published:

11/01/2006

Number of Pages:

11

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1 file , 77 KB