ACEC Urges Congress To Act Now To Address Nation's Water Quality Crisis; Fully-funded Clean Water Program Would Create 238,000 New U.S. Jobs.Business Editors WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 2004 The American Council American Council may refer to: In linguistics:
ACEC American Consulting Engineers Council (now American Council of Engineering Companies) ) - the business association of the engineering industry - today urged Congress to address the worsening state of the nation's water and wastewater systems by authorizing and appropriating the $5.2 billion allocated in the Senate budget resolution (S. Con. Res. 95) for the 2005 Clean Water and Drinking Water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. State Revolving Funds A revolving fund is a fund or account whose income remains available to finance its continuing operations without any fiscal year limitation. Within federal and state governments, law establishes revolving funds. (SRF SRF abbr. somatotropin-releasing factor ). "In cities and towns throughout the nation, unsafe and crumbling water infrastructure poses a dangerous threat to public health, and the environment," says ACEC President Dave Raymond. "Passage of the Senate proposal would help redress this situation. "Members of Congress need look no further than their own backyard in Washington, D.C. to see the dire shape of the nation's water infrastructure," Raymond said. "The recent discovery that some 23,000 homes in the Washington D.C. area have high drinking water lead levels - requiring serious health warnings for residents to drink only filtered water - is disturbing evidence that the nation's aging and failing water systems must be improved." The Senate budget resolution would provide $3.2 billion for the Clean Water SRF and $2 billion for the Drinking water SRF next year. Funding for the SRF at the Senate level would create at least 238,000 U.S. jobs and restart nearly $4.1 billion worth of projects that have been stalled because of lack of funding, and provide a much-needed jolt to the nation's economy. The Administration's 2005 budget request for the two SRF programs totals $1.7 billion. The House did not address the water infrastructure accounts specifically during its budget resolution debates. Congress is currently engaged in conference negotiations on the budget resolution. Since the Clean Water Act was passed more than 30 years ago, federal funding for maintaining America's water infrastructure has decreased by 70 percent. Today, the federal government funds about 5 percent of the nation's water infrastructure costs. Statistics from the Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and warn of a monumental half a trillion dollar funding gap between current spending and projected needs for water and wastewater infrastructure Water and wastewater infrastructure is a generic term to describe public works, piping and plant facilities that treat and distribute drinking water taken from the environment and deliver it for use to a community and also the cycle that manages and treats the wastewater that come if federal investment is not increased. The water and wastewater SRF programs help local communities meet water quality standards, protect public health, repair and replace old and decaying pipelines and treatment plants, and ensure continued progress in restoring the health of the nation's waterways The list of waterways is a link page for any river, canal, estuary or firth. International waterways
The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) is the business association of America's engineering industry, representing approximately 6,000 independent engineering companies throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. engaged in the development of America's transportation, environmental, industrial, and other infrastructure. Founded in 1910 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., ACEC is a national federation of 51 state and regional organizations. |
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