California sets long-awaited drinking water limit for ‘Erin Brockovich’ contaminant

https://apnews.com/article/hexavalent-chromium-water-standards-pollution-brockovich-c5cb0121337648dd5b95a58f0b00aa7e
Until now, California combined its drinking water standard for chromium-6 with the less toxic trivalent chromium, an essential nutrient. California's new limit on chromium-6 is 10 parts per billion — about 10 drops of water in a swimming pool.

FACT SHEET: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Announces Nearly $6 Billion for Clean Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure as Part of Investing in America Tour

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/02/20/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-nearly-6-billion-for-clean-drinking-water-and-wastewater-infrastructure-as-part-of-investing-in-america-tour/

Today, Vice President Kamala Harris and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan will travel to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as part of the Administration’s Investing in America Tour to announce $5.8 billion in funding for clean water infrastructure from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. President Biden and Vice President Harris are committed to ensuring a future where every child and family has access to clean, safe water, and today’s announcement brings the total amount of clean water funding announced by EPA from the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to $22 billion. The Infrastructure Law invests a total of over $50 billion to upgrade America’s water infrastructure, the largest investment in clean water in American history.





USDA is investing $1.2 billion to help rebuild and improve rural water infrastructure for 936,000 rural Americans living in 46 states. The announcement was made Dec. 4 by Anne Hazlett, assistant to the U.S. secretary of agriculture for Rural Development.

https://www.rd.usda.gov/newsroom/news-release/usda-invests-water-and-wastewater-infrastructure-46-states-3

Water Infrastructure Investments

The nation has underinvested in water infrastructure for too long. Insufficient water infrastructure threatens America’s security, and it risks people’s health, jobs, peace of mind, and future prosperity. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law delivers more than $50 billion to EPA to improve our nation’s drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure - the single largest investment in water that the federal government has ever made.

https://www.epa.gov/infrastructure/water-infrastructure-investments

Safe Drinking Water

$11.7 billion to the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (SRF).

$15 billion to the Drinking Water SRF for Lead Service Line Replacement.

$4 billion to the Drinking Water SRF for Emerging Contaminants.

$5 billion to Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Grants to address emerging contaminants.