The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its state partners, the Water Infrastructure Finance Authority of Arizona (WIFA), Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) and Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC), are sponsoring three drought and water loss workshops for drinking-water utilities next week.

Tierra Buena Water Company Inc., a small, private water company in the West Valley, is taking steps to ensure safe drinking water for its approximately 120 customers in an unincorporated community, north of Litchfield Park and west of Glendale in Maricopa County. 

Arizonans can raise a glass to drinking-water improvements, wastewater infrastructure and diminished water pollution, courtesy of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent allocation of $25 million for the state’s Water Infrastructure Finance Authority (WIFA).

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently designated $25 million for Arizona’s water infrastructure to improve overall water quality and to reduce pollution.

Arizona’s Water Infrastructure Finance Authority (WIFA) has closed a loan for the City of Somerton to acquire the Orange Grove Water Company, enabling better management, facility improvement and safer infrastructure, WIFA announced from Phoenix Aug. 14.