The Water Sector Coordinating Council and its federal-state counterpart, the Water Government Coordinating Council, voted to adopt the recommendations of a joint workgroup on whether or how contamination warning system practices could be effective, implementable and sustainable for water systems and what an EPA-led national program might look like. MORE

Members of a House/Senate conference committee are reportedly making progress toward agreement on a compromise transportation reauthorization bill before a June 30 deadline, and one provision in the mix would temporarily lift the state volume cap on private activity bonds used to fund water and wastewater facility upgrades.  MORE

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) formally introduced the panel’s 2012 Farm Bill reauthorization, setting the bill up for possible consideration on the Senate floor in early June.  MORE

A new seven-minute video from the WateReuse Research Foundation, titled “Downstream: A simple story about the need for water reuse technology for a sustainable future,” aims to educate the public on the current use and reuse of water.  MORE

Save the dates of October 21 – 24 for AMWA’s 2012 Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. MORE