Charlie Mark
The importance of water infrastructure funding in Washington, D.C.
Of all the emerging subsets of climate policy, perhaps none are as important as water infrastructure. Water undercuts every core tenant of our lives. We need clean, drinkable water to survive. Yet federal funding for water infrastructure has subsided over the past half-century.
Many groups and lobbying firms are working to right this wrong. Banner Public Affairs is one of them. I spoke with the group’s Water Practice Chair, Mae Stevens, to learn more about exactly what water infrastructure is, how its funding has evolved, and how we at the ground level can improve it.