The GAO uses demographic and housing data to analyze the location of lead service lines.
A home in Flint, Michigan, whose water crisis refocused national attention on lead pipes. Photo © J. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue
By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency can do more to help water utilities and the public identify neighborhoods that are more likely to have lead drinking water pipes, according to a Government Accountability Office report.
The GAO, a watchdog agency that works for Congress, concluded that the EPA has not met the requirements of a 2016 law intended to improve the agency’s public communication of lead pipe risks.
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A farmworker working for Scott Seus out at dawn checking sprinkler operation on his farm in the Klamath Basin outside Tulelake, Calif., on Monday, May 18, 2020. Nowhere has Californias dry winter hit harder than the states far north, where hundreds of farmers along the Oregon border now risk having their irrigation water shut off and their crops destroyed. The Klamath Project, which ships water from the High Cascades to more than 200,000 acres of onions, potatoes, wheat and barley across two states, is running low. Water districts supplied by the project say there may not be water for farms after next month. The last time the water agencies of the Klamath Basin warned of such a dire situation, farmers marched on the gates of the project in protest and U.S. marshals were called in to keep the peace. Today, the prospect of running out of water comes as the farm-dependent region
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A rendering of the proposed Doheny desalination facility in San Juan Creek. Image courtesy of South Coast Water District
South Coast Water District is set to receive an $8.3 million federal grant for the Doheny Ocean Desalination project secured during the previous round of funding, a district spokesperson said Wednesday.
The grant from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation was green lighted by Congress in 2019. SCWD is in line to receive an additional $11.7 million grant for the desalination project that could potentially be approved by lawmakers this year or next.
If approved, the second grant would help SCWD reach the maximum funding of $20 million per project allowed by the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act of 2016.