Dear Utility and Water Industry Friends, Since March 2020, the Maryland Rural Water Association has been closely monitoring the rapidly shifting landscape that we have been dealing with in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) and its continuing spread throughout our communities. Foremost in our minds, …

  MRWA welcomes Scott DeLude to the team! Scott DeLude MRWA’s State Circuit Rider scott.delude@md-rwa.org 410-808-0295    

On February 5, 2021, unidentified cyber actors obtained unauthorized access to the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system at a U.S. drinking water treatment plant. The unidentified actors used the SCADA system’s software to increase the amount of sodium hydroxide, also known as lye, …

WOW. What can I say, I feel like the past few weeks, which is now turning into months, have been a crazy story that started with somebody saying “Hey hold my beer, watch this!”. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not taking for granted the severity …

As the human world closes their doors, in the 2020 Pandemic, the natural world seems to be flourishing.  Air pollution is down, seeming to make the Earth breathe easier (ill-joke or not it’s true!).  After decades and decades of the human footprint enlarging, suddenly we …