The roughly 770,000 customers of Birmingham’s regional water utility spanning five counties will not have a rate increase in ...

The state report details a lack of inventory tracking and other policy violations while former board members question the ...

A new state audit found the former Birmingham Water Works Board’s lack of policies and internal controls contributed to at ...

The Central Water Board approved a 2026 budget Wednesday that includes no rate increase for customers next year.

The $215.6 million budget doesn’t include automated meters, constricts work on Lake Purdy Dam and reduces pipe replacements.

The State Examiners of Public Accounts has released a limited audit of the Birmingham Water Works Board now operating as ...

An audit of the Central Alabama Water Board has uncovered significant problems, including a lack of policies, unapproved sick ...

This is an opinion column. It’s hard to know these days just who the Birmingham Water Works Board’s greatest enemy is. Those seeking to overthrow it, to snatch control of the state’s largest water ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The new regional board of Birmingham Water Works met for the first time Wednesday night. Half of the meeting’s agenda items were tabled, but the board did vote to invalidate ...

Rep. Neil Rafferty, D-Birmingham, speaks during a debate over a bill changing the make-up of the Birmingham Water Works Board on May 1, 2025. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Jim Carns, R-Vestavia, passed ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama legislators passed a bill on Thursday that would strip Birmingham of control over the state's largest water board and transfer power to the governor and surrounding suburbs, ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Birmingham officials are fighting to keep control of the state’s largest water board, alleging in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday that a new bill shifting power to Alabama’s ...