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TheWater Infrastructure Network (WIN) is a broad-based coalition of local elected officials, drinking water and wastewater service providers, state environmental and health program administrators, engineers and environmentalists dedicated to preserving and protecting the health, environmental and economic gains that America's drinking water and wastewater infrastructure provides.

WIN was formed in mid-1999 in response to the conclusion in The Cost of Clean (March 1999), in which AMSA promised to take a leading role in defining the issues and solutions to the growing investment shortfall for water and wastewater treatment. AMSA met that challenge by hosting the first of many meetings of interested organizations to talk about the future of Federal funding for all water quality programs. The Water Infrastructure Network (WIN) celebrated its first milestone on April 12, 2000. WIN and the U.S. House of Representatives' Water Infrastructure Caucus (WIC) released WIN's report entitled, Clean and Safe Water for the 21st Century: A Renewed National Commitment to Water and Wastewater Infrastructure. The report, supported by the wastewater and drinking water communities, the nation's cities and mayors, environmental and engineering groups as well as others, finds that the funding shortfall in America's water infrastructure sector is due to a decades-long slide in the federal financial commitment to the infrastructure necessary to achieve the goals of the Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water Acts.

WIN's second report, Water Infrastructure Now: Recommendations for Clean and Safe Water in the 21st Century, is a consensus document and contains the elements for a new water/wastewater infrastructure financing program. WINow was released at a standing-room only press conference in the U.S. Capitol on February 13, 2001. AMSA member William B. Schatz, an AMSA Board member and General Counsel of the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District in Cleveland, Ohio delivered remarks on behalf of the wastewater community. Thirty-six nationally-recognized organizations have signed on to the report which has been delivered to Congress, the Bush White House, EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, the leadership of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, thousands of elected officials with the National League of Cities, state and interstate water pollution control officials and many others.

WIN Web Site — win-water.org
WIN's web site was officially launched in Roll Call magazine's Earth Day edition (April 23, 2001) and through a press release to WIN members, the media and Congress. The site features the WIN reports as well as a legislative section where visitors can write to their Congressional delegations in support of increased federal funding for water infrastructure.