TFTT Report

On May 7, the San Antonio Express-News published a commentary by Marybeth Leongini, NAWC Director of Communications, titled “Infrastructure improvement key to water sufficiency.” Leongini addresses the water infrastructure challenges in Texas and how private water companies in the state provide more efficient water resource planning and management, along with expertise and investment. Read the […]

For the last 40 years, the American Water Works Association (AWWA), the U.S. EPA, many members of the National Association of Water Companies (NAWC) and others have joined together to celebrate Drinking Water Week during the first full week of May. The purpose of the week is to highlight the integral role water plays in […]

As a fact check campaign, Truth from the Tap is used to correcting activists’ twisted case studies and examples that conveniently leave out important facts or perpetuate myths and falsehoods.  In fact, when we exposed Food & Water Watch’s case studies as full of false and misleading claims, the group pulled all 34 of them […]

A letter to the editor by Marybeth Leongini, Director of Communications for the National Association of Water Companies, was included in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on April 8. Leongini responded to a recent op-ed in which the mayor’s blue-ribbon panel cited a flawed Food & Water Watch rate comparison report as a reason to not consider private water […]

In a letter to the editor published this week, NAWC’s Marybeth Leongini responded to a recent letter from a Food & Water Watch activist that claimed private water ownership results in higher drinking water rates and that Jersey City should take back its system. Leongini points out that the system is already publicly-owned by the […]

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has found that privately-owned utilities are far less likely to have health-based drinking water quality violations than their government-owned counterparts. The study analyzed health related violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) for 17,900 communities over a 34-year period (1982 […]

A recent piece that appeared on the website Heavy.com claims to be the result of a year-long “investigation.” In reality, it is simply a parroting of the same tired claims and spin that anti-private water activists have peddled for years. There are no new claims, case studies or “facts” in the piece that have not […]

In a new piece in Water Finance & Management, NAWC Executive Director Michael Deane discussed the state of our nation’s water infrastructure and policy changes that could be put in place to spur investment. President Trump’s $1 trillion infrastructure proposal, which includes a focus on public-private partnerships (P3s), ultimately took a back seat in 2017 […]

The latest video from Golden State Water Company highlights the utility’s proactive infrastructure improvement strategy. While some utilities replace their pipes every 200 years or more, Golden State Water’s (GSW) replacement schedule is closer to every 100 years. At any given time, the company’s capital projects division has 30 to 40 projects in progress to […]

 In new 30 second and 3 minute videos, Arnold, Missouri, Mayor Ron Counts describes the challenges his city had with outdated sewer infrastructure, including customers with raw sewage spilling into their yards. In the face of extreme budget constraints that did not allow for the problems to be fixed, the city turned to Missouri […]