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The clean water infrastructure funding gap has been documented by the Congressional Budget Office, Government Accountability Office, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Water Infrastructure Network to be in the hundreds of billions of dollars. NACWA urges Congress to address the funding shortfall through a long-term, sustainable federal-state-local partnership. While tremendous progress has been made since the implementation of the Clean Water Act (CWA), over 40% of the nation’s waters are impaired. Cities, counties and other communities need to repair, replace and rehabilitate their aging and failing pipes and plants and build new infrastructure to comply with increasingly complex regulations in order to protect public health and safeguard the environment. To make this local-state-federal partnership a reality, NACWA will:
- Urge Congress and the President to pass legislation to create a clean and safe water trust fund to guarantee the future financial stability of the Clean Water State Revolving Fund and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund and to provide grants for high priority projects such as combined and separate sanitary sewer overflows, priority watersheds and stormwater.
- Develop grassroots support for the trust fund.
- Expand stakeholder involvement, including environmental and conservation groups, as well as state, municipal, public health, labor, consumer advocacy and industry groups to maximize grassroots support for dedicated clean water funding.
Write your Member of Congress on this issue.
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Clean Water Advocacy 
