Amazon Inspector has released an enhancement to the Inspector Agent that will allow it to perform assessments for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE), Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks, and AWS Security Best Practices on supported operating systems, regardless of the kernel version installed. Prior to this release, the Inspector Agent was dependent on an internal kernel module that supported specific Linux OS kernel versions. The Inspector Agent could not be installed or used to run any security assessments for supported Linux operating systems that were using non-default, older, or custom kernels. With this update, you can use any kernel and run those assessments. 

Starting today, Amazon RDS Read Replicas for MySQL and MariaDB now support Multi-AZ deployments. Combining Read Replicas with Multi-AZ enables you to build a resilient disaster recovery strategy and simplify your database engine upgrade process. 

You can now log your Amazon SageMaker API calls with AWS CloudTrail.  

Egypt is to build a mega desalination plant in response to water scarcity concerns, reports news24.com.

Sulzer is to acquire JWC Environmental, a leading supplier of municipal and industrial wastewater equipment.

Authorities in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, have urged municipal corporations to tender water projects under the government’s smart cities scheme by 31 March 2018, reports Times of India.

A 25-year project to transform the Kwale County region of Kenya is to include a capacitive desalination project, reports Citizen News.

Project features WINT’s data-driven platform, which uses pattern recognition and sophisticated algorithms to analyze water flow.

Groundwater and PFAS: State of Knowledge and Practice explores characterization and treatment of emerging drinking water contaminants.

EPA grants help to reduce nonpoint source pollution.