OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2014
Inside
Affordability, Integrated
Planning Continue to Play
Central Role in
Policy Discussions.......................... 2
Proposed Dental Amalgam
Separator Rule Would
Substantially Affect POTWs.......... 2
Web Seminar to Examine
CWSRF Changes............................ 3
Legal Hot Topics Return................ 4
White Paper to Help
Utilities Weather
Stormwater Challenges.................. 4
The Power of Membership............. 5
Utility of the Future in Action........ 5
Andrew Sawyers , Director of the Office of Wastewater
for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will be
the keynote speaker of a December 16 web seminar
co-hosted by NACWA and WEF on new changes to the
Clean Water State Revolving Fund.
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ACWA’s Winter Conference,
Heading Upstream: Ushering in an Era of Collaboration for Water
Quality Gains
, will shine the spotlight on the importance of engaging non-traditional partners
– or even ‘strangers’ – in collaborative work to improve water quality and protect the environ-
ment.
A keynote address by internationally-respected expert on business strategy and innovation, and best-
selling author, Alan Gregerman, will kick-off the Association’s 2015 Winter Conference, February 1-4
in Charleston, South Carolina. Gregerman’s inspiring presentation, based on his best-selling book,
The
Necessity of Strangers
, will examine the power of connecting with new and different people as the real key to
innovation, collaboration, and greater business and personal success.
The conference will also feature NACWA members who are undertaking partnerships with their agricul-
tural neighbors to both achieve water quality benefits in their watersheds and save ratepayers money. In
1972, with passage of the Clean Water Act (CWA), Congress set as a goal the restoration and maintenance
of the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the Nation’s waters, yet only provided a limited num-
ber of tools, focused primarily on the municipal point source community, to achieve it. Fast forward
forty years, it has become apparent that without greater flexibility in meeting permit limits and more
meaningful participation of nonpoint sources of pollution, the goals of the CWA will never fully be real-
ized although its force will still be felt by the point sources.
Collaborations that Achieve Water Quality Goals & Ratepayer Savings Featured
The municipal water and wastewater community is beginning to carve a new path for addressing water
quality impairments by heading upstream and working with private landowners to install conservation
Winter Conference to Highlight
Collaborations with
Non-Traditional Partners
2014 Midterms Change
Landscape on Capitol Hill
C
ontrary to the views of most pundits, pollsters and campaign
strategists, the 2014 election cycle turned out to be a wave
election that looked more like the 2010 midterms rather than
the nail-biter that most expected. Republicans expanded their
majority in the House by thirteen votes and gained the majority in the
Senate by at least seven (possibly nine) seats, changing the Congressional
landscape for a second time in eight years.
What NACWA members might expect to see under a Republican
Congress will begin to emerge over the coming days and weeks and may
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Commitment to America’s Waters
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