“Everyone – every home, every business – needs reliable and safe water. It is time to make water infrastructure a national priority.”

 

By: U.S. Senators John Barrasso, Tom Carper, Jim Inhofe, and Ben Cardin

March 24, 2017

The Hill

Even though it is invisible to most Americans, every community across this country relies on a complex system of reservoirs, aqueducts, dams, levees, treatment plants, pumping stations, and millions of miles of pipes forming our water infrastructure.

For decades, most Americans haven’t given much thought to our water systems, not worrying where water comes from when we turn on the tap, or where it goes after it swirls down the drain.

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