这篇双月刊的综合报道重点介绍了最近几个月最热门的新闻报道，这些报道发表在AWWA向会员机构发布的每周时事通讯WaterWeek上。涉及的主题包括:美国环境保护局（USEPA）发布了有史以来第一份10年过滤报告 回避决定（FAD）于2007年7月30日在纽约市发布，允许其继续 从城市的卡茨基尔/特拉华流域提供未经过滤的水；在因其巴豆水过滤厂的建设延误而遭受每日罚款后 纽约市环境保护局（DEP）最近报告称 与瑞典的斯堪斯卡公司敲定了一份价值13亿美元的合同，这是最大的一份合同 城市史上的建筑合同；到目前为止，DEP已经向该州支付了550万美元的罚款 以及联邦政府未能满足建设过滤厂的各种期限 1998年达成协议，将改善100万城市居民的水质 来自巴顿河流域的补给；在美国环境保护局的要求下，该机构提出了改善可持续水基础设施的建议 国家环境政策和技术咨询委员会（NACEPT）已经 确定对水资源的流域方法缺乏了解和使用 管理是美国环境保护局的一个主要机会，同时赞扬该机构为支持这一点已经开展的众多活动 NACEPT建议美国环境保护局为“可持续发展”创造一个位置 “流域协调员”，并负责协调所有机构活动和 与其他联邦机构互动，沟通 对可持续水基础设施采取分水岭方法的“紧迫性”；美国环保局饮用水州循环基金（DWSRF）的年度账目 显示联邦/州基础设施融资伙伴关系的资金高于 在2005年下跌后的2006年，第10年接近130亿美元；州和州际水污染控制管理者协会（ASIWPCA）是一个代表州水污染控制机构的全国性组织，该协会已致电 国会将起草具体的语言，禁止美国环境保护局制定《清洁水法案》 （CWA）第106条附属条款；美国供水商阻止国会豁免浓缩动物饮用水的努力 超级基金立法规定的清理责任中的喂食操作（CAFO）仍在继续 在2007年9月6日参议院环境与公共政策委员会的听证会上 作品安大略省环境部报告称，它已经实施了所有121项措施 为避免2000年5月发生在小城镇沃克顿的悲剧重演而提出的建议 多伦多西北部的一座城镇，那里被污染的饮用水导致7人死亡，7人死亡 患病2300人；加利福尼亚州采用了饮用水标准，高氯酸盐含量为6 微克/升，相当于在很大程度上保护女性胎儿的公共卫生目标 甲状腺功能减退或碘缺乏症；美国环境保护局发布的最后一项研究得出结论称 “因素”导致的失业率上升 水中的铅含量 送至香港特区 哥伦比亚水和下水道管理局（DCWASA）几年前就开始为客户提供污水处理服务，美国的污水处理从20世纪90年代中期开始发生变化 美国陆军工程兵团华盛顿水渠设施导致铅的释放 在WASA的分配系统中引入供水管道；佛罗里达州南部 水资源管理区（SFWMD）遵守了美国地区法院的命令，不允许 将富含磷酸盐的运河水泵入奥基乔比湖，直到其达到国家污染物排放消除标准（NPDES） 转让许可证。

This bimonthly roundup features highlights of the hottest news stories of recent months as reported in WaterWeek, AWWA's weekly newsletter to member utilities. Topics covered include: the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) issued its first-ever 10-year Filtration Avoidance Determination (FAD) on July 30, 2007, to New York City, allowing it to continue providing unfiltered water from the city's Catskill/Delaware watershed; after enduring daily fines for delays in constructing its Croton Water Filtration Plant, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) recently reported that it has finalized a contract with Sweden-based Skanska Corporation for $1.3 billion, the largest single construction contract in city history; to date, DEP has paid $5.5 million in fines to the state and federal governments for failure to meet various deadlines set for building a filtration plant agreed to in 1998 that would improve water quality for the 1 million city residents who rely on supplies from the Croton Watershed; asked by USEPA to recommend ways to improve sustainable water infrastructure, the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT) has identified lack of understanding and use of the watershed approach to water resource management as a major opportunity for USEPA, and while commending the agency for numerous activities it is already doing to support this concept, NACEPT recommended that USEPA create a position for a "sustainable watershed coordinator" and charge that position with aligning all agency activities and interaction with other federal agencies, and communicate the "urgency" of adopting a watershed approach to sustainable water infrastructure; USEPA's annual accounting of the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) shows that dollars for the federal/state infrastructure funding partnership were higher than ever in 2006 after a dip in 2005, nearing $13 billion in its 10th year; the Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators (ASIWPCA), a national organization that represents state water pollution control agencies, has called on Congress to write specific language to prohibit USEPA from making Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 106 set-asides; efforts by US water suppliers to stop Congress from exempting concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) from cleanup liabilities under Superfund legislation continued during a Sept. 6, 2007, hearing by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works; Ontario's Ministry of the Environment reports it has implemented all 121 of the recommendations made to avoid a repeat of the May 2000 tragedy in Walkerton, a small town northwest of Toronto where contaminated drinking water killed seven people and sickened 2,300; California has adopted a drinking water standard for perchlorate of 6 µg/L, equal to the public health goal that was set in large part to protect fetuses of women with hypothyroidism or iodide deficiencies; a final study released by the USEPA concludes that a "combination of factors" caused elevated lead levels in the water delivered to District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DCWASA) customers several years ago, and that treatment changes starting in the mid-1990s at the US Army Corps of Engineers Washington Aqueduct facility led to the release of lead from lead service pipes throughout WASA's distribution system; and, Southern Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) has honored a US District Court order not to pump phosphate-laden canal water into Lake Okeechobee until it obtains a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Standards (NPDES) permit for the transfer.