Alliance President Testifies Before Congress

On March 21, 2012, Alliance President Ben Grumbles testified before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment in a hearing on water infrastructure funding.  He said that “We urgently need water innovation and collaboration, not only to sharpen and polish existing tools, but also to forge new tools for communities [...]

Alliance Supports Increased WaterSense Funding

On January 5, 2012 the U.S. Water Alliance joined 22 other water organizations, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, American Rivers, Alliance for Water Efficiency, and the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies, in signing a letter addressed to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urging a 20% increase in funding for its WaterSense program. WaterSense [...]

The Public Rust Doctrine

In celebration of a new year, here’s a new phrase for a long-standing (and I hope eventually crumbling) water policy syndrome: “the Public Rust Doctrine”. What It Is and Isn’t I define the PRD as “principles and teachings that water and wastewater infrastructure systems should only be owned, operated and maintained by public entities supplied [...]