Utilities Seek ‘Distributive Model' For EPA’s SDWA Cybersecurity Rules

An official with the American Water Works Association (AWWA), which represents a variety of water utilities, is backing federal cybersecurity rules for the sector after EPA scrapped a Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) mandate for the sector, saying a "distributive model" could find support among the same groups that challenged the prior policy as unlawful. “We're asking it to be regulated,” Kevin Morley, AWWA’s manager of federal relations, said in a recent interview with Inside EPA . “The important point...