As part of the Recovering Stronger initiative, the US Water Alliance has created a blueprint for federal policymakers to help the water sector recover stronger. This blueprint showcases the water sector’s best legislative, regulatory, and administrative policy ideas to inform and shape early policy conversations and help policymakers understand where they specifically might be able to effect change.
The blueprint is organized around the following themes:
- Make the Water Sector More Stable addresses the structural and funding issues facing the water sector.
- Make the Water Sector Safer addresses the problem of emerging and legacy contaminants in the water sector.
- Make the Water Sector More Affordable and Accessible tackles the policy barriers that limit solutions to make water affordable and to ensure everyone has access to safe, reliable water services.
- Make the Water Sector Smarter outlines ways the federal government can incentivize utility modernization and research in the water sector.
- Make the Water Sector More Resilient addresses how water can be a force for combating the climate crisis.
- Take a Whole-Government Approach to Federal Water Management discusses a cross-agency water management strategy to coordinate the more than twenty federal agencies responsible for some component of water management.