The Daily Freeman reports that New York's Department of Health renewed New York City’s upstate reservoir filtration waiver for another ten years. New York City gets 90 percent of its drinking water from the Catskills and Delaware River basin. This “Filtration Avoidance Determination” requires New York City to build Shokan, in Olive in Ulster County, a new wastewater treatment plant. Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Adam Bosch reported that the city will spend about $1 billion in all over the next decade in the area to keep the water clean. Read the full story in the Daily Freeman.