How San Diego Breweries Are Offsetting Craft Beer’s Water Footprint | Beer & Breweries
San Diego brewery Pure Project have made sustainability the centerpiece of their entire business plan It takes an average of seven gallons of water to produce one gallon of beer. That’s not an easy stat for breweries to swallow—especially in our region, which is experiencing the driest two decades in over a millennium. Although San […]
Water Conservation Month
Alachua County has joined numerous governments, utilities, and agencies across Florida in declaring April as Water Conservation Month. To learn about water and ways to conserve it, look for the Alachua County Environmental Protection Department’s (EPD) Aquifer Awareness campaign on social media, billboards, and print media, or participate in an upcoming webinar on how to […]
California Steps Up Water Conservation Measures, Stops Short of Statewide Mandate | Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
On March 28, 2022, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Executive Order N-7-22, escalating prior water conservation efforts as the majority of California remains under “extreme drought” conditions. The executive order has significant implications for all businesses, individual water users, urban water suppliers and others. How We Got Here In 2021, California took several actions to encourage […]
No Legislative Intent to Tax Water for General Purposes; AAAR holds Tertiary Treated Water eligible for GST Exemption
By Jwala K.P – On April 5, 2022 2:07 pm The Maharashtra Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling has held that no legislative intent to tax water for general purposes and holds Tertiary Treated Water (TTW) eligible for GST exemption. The appellant, M/s. Nagpur Waste Water Management Pvt. Ltd, has entered into a contract with Nagpur […]
Paul Poliquin: Cities’ shared drinking water could be in jeopardy
My thanks to Lewiston Mayor Carl Sheline for looking out for Lewiston and Auburn taxpayers. I agree with Mayor Sheline on a moratorium and a comprehensive study. I question the effects of development of 148 acres on and near Lake Auburn. As a former Lewiston council president and member of the City Council for 10 […]
US to contribute in improving water, sanitation services
Islamabad : The United States, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), recently launched a four-year water and sanitation initiative that will provide safe drinking water to 70,000 residents in two districts in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces. This new initiative will reduce […]
USDA Offers Water Quality-Focused Program That Builds on CRP Contracts
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is announcing the signup period for its Clean Lakes, Estuaries, And Rivers initiative (CLEAR30) — a nationwide opportunity for certain landowners and agricultural producers currently implementing water quality practices through the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) to enroll in 30-year contracts, extending the lifespan and strengthening the benefits of important […]
Toxic Drinking Water Lawsuits: What to Do If You’re Concerned About PFAS Water Contamination | Console and Associates, P.C.
Across the country, drinking water supplied by public water systems has been found to be contaminated by toxic chemicals called perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. PFAS, including PFOS and PFOA, are persistent organic pollutants that are also known as “forever chemicals” because they can take thousands of years to break down in the environment. […]
Silt struggling to clean drinking water after Grizzly Creek fire, mudslides
T he original problem was fire. The flames from the Grizzly Creek fire lasted for five months in 2020, burning more than 32,000 acres in western Colorado. Now, the fire has created another problem, and it has to do with water. Debris and ash from the fire and subsequent mudslides fell into the Colorado River, […]
Backyard water works to start for Carlow’s Granby Row residents this week
Irish Water going to start digging up the backyards of houses on Granby Row this week. The utility is replacing old iron or lead backyard water mains and providing new service connections for local residents. It’s because they are a significant source of leakage and residents have been dealing with reduced levels of service as […]