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January 2025

Stay Current with NYRWA emails - Add us to your Safe Sender List

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The New York Rural Water Association uses two separate platforms to send out bulk email. If you are not receiving our emails you may want to check your spam, junk or other folder. If the email is not there either you may have to contact your IT Department, so our communications make it to your inbox.

Below are the domain’s you should add to your “safelisting” (formerly referred to as "whitelisting").

Landmark UK Project To Accelerate Technology And Commercial Use Of Biopolymers Extracted From Sewage Sludge

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Peterborough, United Kingdom, 25 September 2024 – Royal HaskoningDHV, the international engineering company, is to implement in Blackburn, Lancashire, the UK’s first-ever Kaumera pilot plant to extract biopolymers from sewage sludge.

Governor Hochul Highlights $665 Million to Make Local Water Infrastructure Projects Affordable Across New York State

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Includes More Than $450 Million to Finance Clean Water Projects in New York City

Approval of Financial Assistance Authorizes Municipal Access to the Capital Needed for Projects that Reduce Risks to Public Health and the Environment

UCalgary's New Flow Facility Helps Advance Research Into Pipeline Leak Detection

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News | October 3, 2024

Research aims to reduce energy loss in emergency municipal water treatment

Water pipeline leaks were a big issue in Calgary this past summer, plunging the entire city into two extended periods of water-use restrictions after a mainline suffered a major break in June.

Upcoming Events

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS! 

46th Annual Technical Training Workshop & Exhibition
Monday, May 19, 2025 - Wednesday, May 21, 2025
in Verona, NY at The Turning Stone Resort

More states ban PFAS, or ‘forever chemicals,’ in more products

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In total this year, at least 16 states adopted 22 PFAS-related measures.

By: Shalina Chatlani - October 22, 2024 5:00 am

Legislative momentum against PFAS has surged this year, as at least 11 states enacted laws to restrict the use of “forever chemicals” in everyday consumer products or professional firefighting foam.

‘Praying for rain’: How New York farmers are dealing with drought — and unexpected brush fires

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Story by Frida Garza

For farmers, planning for spring begins in the fall. That’s when seeds go into the ground. Later, if all goes well, roots begin to grow, followed by shoots and leaves. But that only happens when there’s enough water. 

Toxic chemical ‘Hall of Shame’ calls out retailers in time for holiday shopping

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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN
Fri November 15, 2024

(CNN) - Major retailers are failing to protect consumers from hazardous chemicals and plastics in the products they sell, according to the 2024 Retailer Report Card released Thursday by Toxic Free Future, a nonprofit consumer product safety organization.

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