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In The News: World Economic Forum Appoints Circle of Blue Managing Director to its Global Future Council on the Future of the Energy Nexus

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January 16, 2025

GENEVA (January 16, 2025) — The World Economic Forum (WEF)…

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New EPA Federal Water Rules Put Chicago on Track to Replace All Lead Pipes Within 20 Years

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Weekly Summary of Global Water News

A powerful, overnight rainstorm in central Bosnia and Herzegovina has caused the country’s ‘worst flooding in years.’
River flows around the world fell to all-time lows last year, according to a new United Nations report.
The amount of moss and plant life on Antarctica has increased tenfold over the past 40 years, as sea ice and snow continue to melt in a warming world.
Rural communities in Zimbabwe are bracing for acute food shortages after a year of failed harvests.
The number of Atlantic salmon returning to English waters has reached a record low, indicative of the country’s polluted freshwater ecosystems.

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Weekly Digest of U.S. Water Policy and Trends

Biden administration revises federal rules for lead in drinking water, setting a national deadline.
Meanwhile, an EPA deadline for water utilities to submit lead pipe inventories arrives this week.
CDC and local officials in San Diego investigate health impacts from cross-border sewage in Tijuana River.
EPA plans to survey large wastewater plants nationally to understand PFAS in wastewater and sewage sludge.
Another pumped storage hydropower project in the Southwest files for a preliminary permit.
Hurricane aid is caught up in Republican fiscal austerity politics.

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Biweekly Breakdown of Great Lakes Region News

This Week’s Watersheds

Milwaukee’s South Shore beach, which for years has been one of the country’s most polluted swimming areas, is being moved south.
In all five Great Lakes, NOAA researchers are measuring water quality by analyzing the tissue samples of invasive zebra and quagga mussels.
After Wisconsin’s wettest decade on record, the state ranks second in the nation in dam failures, according to a new report.
The successful completion of eight restoration projects in Lake Ontario has led to the Rochester Embayment’s removal from the EPA’s “areas of concern” list.
On a recent trip to Wisconsin, President Biden announced a new national deadline for lead service line replacements.

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