The inevitable conversion to aerobic septic systems is the modern-day reality of country living east of Interstate 35, according to Reynold Berra, a Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on-site ...

FILE - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building is shown in Washington, Sept. 21, 2017. The Biden administration says it's expanding a program to help rural communities with serious sewage ...

The comprehensive plan developed by Greenville County in 2020 called for limiting new private septic systems due to environmental concerns and to encourage development around existing or proposed ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Tennessee's population is booming. Developers are building new neighborhoods in rural areas not connected to city sewer systems. In many cases, the developers build sewage ...

This article originally published on The Conversation. Intestinal infections take a heavy toll on impoverished Black communities that have out-of-date sewage systems. These infections often spread ...

A pit holding raw sewage is seen outside a home in rural Alabama. An estimated 80% of residents in Alabama’s Black Belt are not connected to municipal sewage lines, forcing them to rely on private ...

A recent bill that proposes $7.5 million in annual cybersecurity funding for the next five years for US rural water systems may have a bigger impact for covered entities than the dollar amount alone ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A battle is brewing in the Tennessee legislature over what to do about more than a hundred failing sewage systems across the state. Developers built these systems to serve ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration ...