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New Normals💻

Biennial water & sewer affordability update, part 1 time to pay bills again (photo credit Mikhail Nilov) Every other year since 2017 I’ve collected water and wastewater rates for the same nationally representative, stratified

Wake-up Call 💻

Cyber attacks open a window for reform It finally happened. After years of isolated incidents, last month a wave of cyberattacks, likely of Iranian origin, struck U.S. water utilities. Almost all of the victims

Win – Win – Win 💻

Decoupling can improve conservation, revenue stability, and affordability all i’m offering you is the truth, nothing more It’s an El Niño summer, and water systems from Utah to Iowa to Florida are responding to

PFASt Takes 2: Zeldin Boogaloo 💻

Musings on EPA’s evolving approach to PFAS and drinking water As readers of this blog likely know, EPA recently announced significant revisions to its PFAS regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act, then followed

Variable Flow Irritates a Politician 💻

Sometimes there’s a little to say about a lot of things. Welcome back to Variable Flow. u can haz assistunce A tale of two memos EPA Office of Water recently released a memorandum outlining

A Matter of Taste 💻

Strengthening trust in tap water—and in government—means taking aesthetics seriously the ultimate consumer confidence indicator (Photo by Engin Akyurt) A great irony—and in some ways, a great tragedy—of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)

Safe Drinking Water Act: The Next Fifty Years 💻

A new book aims to shape the national conversation Now available from Palgrave Macmillan In December 2024, the La Follette School at UW-Madison and the Water & Health Advisory Council gathered researchers, regulators, water sector executives, and community

Safe Drinking Water Act: The Next Fifty Years 📖

Palgrave Macmillan Manuel P. Teodoro, Editor In this open access book, contributors explore current challenges and opportunities to improve drinking water regulation, governance, management, environmental justice, and more. In 2024, the United States marked

Why PFAS Policymakers Should Read Past the Abstract 📰

WATER ONLINE Manny Teodoro, Chad Seidel, and Joe Cotruvo When it comes to drinking water, sound public policy requires sound scientific research. Publication in a prestigious, peer-reviewed journal helps establish legitimacy for scientific claims

SDWA at 51: Justice and the Promise of Safe Drinking Water💻

sometimes justice demands different approaches to different contaminants On the fiftieth anniversary of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) in 2024, the Water & Health Advisory Council unveiled the Madison Declaration, which identifies five

Variable Flow Comes Limping After 💻

Sometimes there’s a little to say about a lot of things. Welcome back to Variable Flow. Don't Blame the Victim wazn't me Congress is considering PFAS liability exemptions for water and sewer systems under

Pondwater 💻

You shouldn’t recruit survey participants through social media—or trust studies that do Waters of the United States? Every couple of weeks a post hits my social media feeds asking me to participate in a

PBS University Roundtable 🎦

Report Cards for Wisconsin’s Drinking Water Utilities Click image to watch video on YouTube - or look for it on PBS Wisconsin.

Variable Flow Moves the Goalposts 💻

Sometimes there’s a little to say about a lot of things. Welcome back to Variable Flow. i can haz flouride? Fluoride follies Grand Rapids, Michigan began adding fluoride to its water in 1945 to

Report Card Roundup 💻

Early dispatches from the revolution It’s been a little over two months since the Wisconsin Waterworks Excellence Project (WWEP) released the first public report cards for 572 Badger State water utilities. The WWEP publishes

Variable Flow Moves Fast and Breaks Things💻

Sometimes there’s a little to say about a lot of things. Welcome back to Variable Flow. u needz bettur sooer purrmit Hooray? The US Supreme Court's handed sewer utilities a win last week in

The Madison Declaration💻

Today the Water & Health Advisory Council (WHAC) and the La Follette School of Public Affairs hosts a symposium marking the 50th anniversary of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), bringing together water sector

Variable Flow Shifts the Blame 💻

Sometimes there’s a little to say about a lot of things. Welcome back to Variable Flow. maybee you haz teh led pipez? It’s been a minute, I know. Water comms: moar science! Regular readers

Variable Flow Raises the Dead 💻

Sometimes there’s a little to say about a lot of things. Welcome back to Variable Flow. dis water haz teh icky plastiks Microplastics: bottle vs. tap In a stunning development, it turns out that water

Variable Flow Rearranges the Deck Chairs 💻

Sometimes there’s a little to say about a lot of things. Welcome back to Variable Flow. Battle of Helm’s Deep-PFAS liability edition Let the suits commence When EPA announced their proposed Maximum Contaminant Limit (MCL)

Variable Flow is Shocked. Shocked! 💻

Sometimes there’s a little to say about a lot of things. Welcome back to Variable Flow. i can haz clean river? Tribal ripple effects Since the late 1980s, tribal governments in the United States have

PFASt takes 💻

Initial thoughts on EPA’s proposed PFAS standards This is a perfluorooctanesulfonic acid molecule. It's kind of cute! Almost. As regular readers of this blog are likely aware, this week EPA announced proposed Maximum Contaminant

Profits of Distrust at Seminary Co-op Bookstore 🎦

A conversation with Sabina Shaikh, University of Chicago The burgeoning bottled water industry presents a paradox: Why do people choose expensive, environmentally destructive bottled water, rather than cheaper, sustainable, and more rigorously regulated tap

New Normals💻

Wake-up Call 💻

Win – Win – Win 💻

PFASt Takes 2: Zeldin Boogaloo 💻

Variable Flow Irritates a Politician 💻

A Matter of Taste 💻

Safe Drinking Water Act: The Next Fifty Years 💻

Safe Drinking Water Act: The Next Fifty Years 📖

Why PFAS Policymakers Should Read Past the Abstract 📰

SDWA at 51: Justice and the Promise of Safe Drinking Water💻

Variable Flow Comes Limping After 💻

Pondwater 💻

PBS University Roundtable 🎦

Variable Flow Moves the Goalposts 💻

Report Card Roundup 💻

Variable Flow Moves Fast and Breaks Things💻

The Madison Declaration💻

Variable Flow Shifts the Blame 💻

Variable Flow Raises the Dead 💻

Variable Flow Rearranges the Deck Chairs 💻

Variable Flow is Shocked. Shocked! 💻

PFASt takes 💻

Profits of Distrust at Seminary Co-op Bookstore 🎦

The Profits of Distrust 📖

Environmental Federalism in Indian Country 🎓

Game Changer 💻

Panopticon 💻

Public water waste reporting 🎓

Lone Star Blues 💻

Echoes of Vizzini 💻

New Normals? 💻

The Plan 💻

Garden Badger 💻

Right on the money 💻

New Jersey’s Water Quality [Achievement] Act 💻