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The National Rural Water Association (NRWA) and Water Information Sharing and Analysis Center (WaterISAC) announced Thursday a formal cybersecurity collaboration. With this partnership, WaterISAC and NRWA will work to educate rural water utilities across the country about cyber and physical…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has withdrawn its March 2023 cybersecurity memorandum, which urged states to assess the cybersecurity of operational technology (OT) within public water systems during sanitary surveys or other state initiatives. Citing ongoing litigation (State of…

Water utilities face challenges in recruiting, training, and retaining their workers, the U.S. President’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) disclosed in its latest report published Monday. The agency added that about one-third of the current water sector workforce will be…

A U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit granted last week a request from the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and the National Rural Water Association (NRWA) to stop the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Cybersecurity Rule from going…

New bipartisan legislation has been brought into the U.S. House of Representatives that focuses on protecting rural communities from cyber attacks that have the potential to shut off water supply for Iowans, commercial entities, and farms. The initiative updates and…