Sign to tell Congress: Reject Trump admin's water privatization plans.
U.S. Congress
Trump's infrastructure plan is essentially a huge tax break for corporations to privatize critical infrastructure like our water systems.
Sign to tell your members of Congress today: Don't let the Trump administration open the flood gates for water privatization! Instead support the WATER Act, which would invest directly in our public water systems.
Our water infrastructure is badly in need of repair and expansion. The solution to this is more funding for public water systems, not the privatization schemes corporations claim will help. Their investments are designed to generate profit for the corporations themselves -- not improve water systems.
In fact, contracts with private water corporations come at a steep price for communities across the country, causing problems like rate hikes, labor abuses, shortcuts that can jeopardize public health and safety, and millions of taxpayer dollars in extra costs.
That's why the best way to fix our aging public water infrastructure, in order to protect people’s access to clean and safe water, is democratically controlled, well-funded public water systems. The WATER Act would create a sustained source of funding for our public water systems, by closing corporate tax loopholes.
So sign to tell your members of Congress today: oppose any infrastructure plan that promotes water privatization, and instead sponsor or co-sponsor the WATER Act.
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[Your Name]
As you consider options for how to fund our nation's infrastructure, I urge you to oppose any infrastructure plan from the Trump administration that would promote water privatization, including in the form of public-private partnerships. And I urge you to instead support the Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability (WATER) Act (H.R. 1673), which would invest directly in our public water systems.
All signs from the White House signal a massive push for privatization, including in the form of public-private partnerships. But we know that direct federal investment in our public water systems is the real solution.
The WATER Act accomplishes just that, by allocating $34.8 billion annually to our public water infrastructure. That's why I call on you to oppose any infrastructure plan that promotes water privatization in all its forms, and instead to sponsor or co-sponsor the WATER Act.