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Every four years, the EPA conducts the Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey. The goal of this survey is to estimate the projected 20-year financial need of water systems throughout the country. The responses of systems in New Jersey will help to determine how much funding our state receives for drinking water infrastructure improvements. In New Jersey, the NJDEP administers the survey.

President Joe Biden proposed $2 trillion infrastructure federal funding package may give New Jersey the funding needed to replace lead service lines.

Two public opinion surveys found that respondents’ highest environmental concern was the quality of their drinking water and that ensuring all people have safe drinking water should be a top priority for our governor and Legislature.

Jersey Water Works created Jersey WaterCheck to support the goal of solving New Jersey’s water infrastructure challenges using information.

On February 23, Governor Murphy presented the FY 2022 Budget Address. The proposed budget includes $60 million to provide continued state budget support for the Drinking Water and Clean Water Infrastructure Fund. The budget also supports new staff to monitor lead and copper contaminants in drinking water.

A little over five years since the Jersey Water Works (JWW) collaborative began, we are celebrating an achievement related to the single issue that sparked its creation.

The sixth annual Jersey Water Works Conference brought together a record-breaking 355 stakeholders and 29 speakers over 11 sessions to share the latest ideas on water funding, CSOs, transparency and data, water workforce, water equity and resilience, and more. This is the first blog post of two recapping the December 9-11 event.

In 2021, there is a chance of turning the corner in water infrastructure projects following a year of progress in lead-line replacement, curbing sewage overflows and state funding. Mark Mauriello talked about how Jersey Water Works members are finding collaborative solutions to big problems at the NJ Spotlight News Water Infrastructure NJ roundtable.

Jersey Water Works members, your voices are needed to amplify water infrastructure as a federal priority.

“The price tag for fixing New Jersey’s creaking water infrastructure is an eye-watering $25 billion over the next 20 years, according to a water-industry collaborative, but a range of financing options could soften the impact and allow critical improvements to be made, experts told an NJ Spotlight News roundtable on Monday.”