State Analyses
State analyses from "Clear Waters: Why America Needs a Clean Water Trust Fund". October 2007.
The United States’ wastewater infrastructure, aging and increasingly unable to handle the pressures of modern society, is in serious danger. When pipes break and sewers overflow, communities, the environment, and our economy all suffer.
States and communities are making tremendous efforts to handle their clean water needs, but the problem is too big for them alone. The public has overwhelmingly claimed clean water as a national issue, and Congress should offer a solution that will keep politics out of critical infrastructure financing.
Listed below are handy fact sheets discussing why YOUR state needs a National Clean Water Trust Fund. You can 
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State Trends in Clean Water Spending
For more information, download the full report, Clear Waters: Why America Needs a Clean Water Trust Fund.
Fact Sheets
- Protecting America’s Waters: Clean and Safe Water Needs a Trust Fund
- Questions & Answers: A Cost Comparison of Public and Private Water Utility Operation
- The Top Five Reasons to Keep Tennessee’s Water in Public Hands
- The Top Five Reasons to Keep California’s Water in Public Hands
- The Top Five Reasons to Keep Oregon’s Water in Public Hands
Reports
- Costly Returns — Costly Returns: How Corporations Could Profit from ...
- Clear Waters — When a resource is as basic as clean water, it can ...
- The Case for a Clean Water Trust Fund — Clean, healthy, affordable water is something ever ...
- All Dried Up: How Clean Water is Threatened by Budget Cuts — Water quality is a key component of environmental ...