美国水协会:国会山值得信赖的资源

IF 0.7 4区 环境科学与生态学 Q4 ENGINEERING, CIVIL
Nate Norris
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AWWA 在华盛顿特区建立了 "水的代言人 "的声誉,我们努力确保决策者在考虑可能影响饮用水系统及其服务社区的政策时听取我们会员的意见。AWWA 的会员包括工程师、科学家、操作员、公用事业经理、教育工作者、公职人员等。在 AWWA 的政府事务办公室,我们的主要职责之一是帮助有效促进会员与国会之间的知识转移,以实现积极的政策成果。众议院有 435 名有投票权的议员,参议院有 100 名议员,参众两院的委员会直接管辖水政策的各个方面。虽然他们会审议立法并就水行业的优先事项举行听证会,但国会议员通常没有水行业的经验。国会研究服务部最近的一份报告指出,只有不到 10 名国会议员是工程师,只有 5 名是科学家。作为水务专业人士和选民,你们的专业知识有助于以一种能与你们的代表产生共鸣的方式传达你们自己的公用事业需求。我们努力让您了解联邦立法活动的最新情况,提供宣传工具和资源,并简化联系流程,以便您在公用事业部门和代表办公室之间建立联系。寄一封信或打一个电话的简单举动就可以帮助提高您的代表对某一问题的认识。邀请您的代表参观您的公用事业也是传达您所提供服务的重要性和复杂性的好方法。最终,通过花时间与您的代表联系,您可以将自己和您的公用事业公司打造成国会山值得信赖的资源!Fly-In 活动中,来自美国各地的 150 多名 AWWA 会员与他们在国会山的代表会面,讨论联邦立法和水行业的需求。我们与 AWWA 的水公用事业理事会合作,概述政策优先事项,为我们的 "飞入式 "宣传活动提供信息和材料,帮助您充分利用您的对话。这些会议为我们的成员提供了教育立法者及其工作人员的机会,展示了地方与联邦决策的联系,并提高了水在国会议程中的重要性。通过以 AWWA 代表的身份与您的立法者会面,您加强了 AWWA 作为饮用水政策领导者的声誉。AWWA 和我们的志愿者在技术报告、指导和工具、标准制定、出版物和其他水行业资源方面投入了大量的时间和资源。在适当和有帮助的情况下,我们会向国会提供某些材料,为立法过程提供信息。例如,AWWA 委托进行的成本研究可以帮助国会更好地理解和充分认识到解决与全氟和多氟烷基物质 (PFAS) 处理技术相关的资本成本所需的资金水平。我们很幸运,因为我们的成员在国会桌面上可能会出现的每一类饮用水政策方面都具有特定的专业知识。AWWA 成员还应邀直接提供专业知识,在委员会听证会上就感兴趣的主题作证,或通过国会简报提供教育内容。即使 AWWA 没有在听证会上作证,我们也会提供一份正式声明,以便将我们成员的观点记录在案。我们还与华盛顿的其他全国性水协会就共同的优先事项开展合作,例如水基础设施资金、PFAS、水的可负担性、网络安全等。通过集体发言,我们可以扩大我们会员和行业的优先事项,改善决策过程,并帮助您与您的国会议员建立关系。AWWA 的 50,000 名会员可以发挥重要作用,在美国水行业继续应对公用事业和社区面临的众多挑战时,提供专业技术知识并传达您在保护公众健康方面发挥的关键作用。
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AWWA: A Trusted Resource on Capitol Hill

AWWA has built a reputation as the “voice of water” in Washington, D.C., and we strive to ensure decision makers hear from our membership as they consider policy that may affect drinking water systems and the communities they serve. AWWA's members are engineers, scientists, operators, utility managers, educators, public officials, and more. Each of you has unique knowledge and experience that can help provide critical perspective to members of Congress.

In AWWA's Government Affairs office, one of our primary roles is helping to effectively facilitate knowledge transfer between our members and Congress to achieve positive policy outcomes. There are 435 voting members of the House of Representatives, 100 members of the Senate, and committees in both chambers with direct jurisdiction over the various aspects of water policy. Though they consider legislation and hold hearings on water sector priorities, members of Congress typically don’t have experience in the water sector. A recent report from the Congressional Research Service noted that fewer than 10 members of Congress were engineers and as few as five were scientists. Your expertise, as water professionals and constituents, can be helpful in communicating your own utility's needs in a way that resonates with your representative.

However, we know that educating Congress is not part of your job description. We work hard to keep you updated on federal legislative activity, provide advocacy tools and resources, and streamline the process of reaching out so that you can build a relationship between your utility and your representative's office. The simple act of sending a letter or making a phone call can help raise awareness of an issue for your representative. Inviting your representative to tour your utility is also a great way to convey the importance and complexity of the service you provide. Ultimately, by taking the time to connect with your representative, you can establish yourself and your utility as a trusted resource on Capitol Hill.

At our signature event, the annual Water Matters! Fly-In, more than 150 AWWA members from around the United States meet with their representatives on Capitol Hill to discuss federal legislation and the water sector's needs. We work alongside AWWA's Water Utility Council to outline policy priorities that inform our Fly-In advocacy, and we provide information and materials to help you make the most of your conversations. These meetings give our members the opportunity to educate lawmakers and their staffs, demonstrate local connections to federal policymaking, and elevate the importance of water on Congress's agenda.

These interactions help build trust and set the foundation for additional outreach in the future. By meeting with your lawmaker as a representative of AWWA, you reinforce AWWA's reputation as a leader in drinking water policy. These meetings can also act as a primer for AWWA's legislative affairs staff, who can follow up with additional outreach and materials.

AWWA and our volunteers devote significant time and resources to technical reports, guidance and tools, standards development, publications, and other water sector resources. When appropriate and helpful, we provide certain materials to Congress to inform the legislative process. For example, AWWA commissioned cost studies that can help Congress better understand and fully appreciate the level of funding that may be necessary to address capital costs associated with treatment technology for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

With your help, AWWA informs congressional decision-making in other ways as well. We are fortunate to have members with specific expertise in just about every category of drinking water policy that may come across a congressional desk. AWWA members have also been asked to offer this expertise directly by testifying at committee hearings related to topics of interest or providing educational content through congressional briefings. Even when AWWA is not testifying at a hearing, we may provide a formal statement for the record so that our members’ perspectives are taken into consideration.

We also work collaboratively with other national water associations in Washington on shared priorities like water infrastructure funding, PFAS, water affordability, cybersecurity, and more. By speaking as a collective, we can amplify the priorities of our members and the sector, improve the policymaking process, and help you build a relationship with your member(s) of Congress. AWWA's 50,000 members can play an important part by offering technical expertise and conveying the key role you play in protecting public health, as the US water sector continues to address numerous challenges facing utilities and communities.

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期刊介绍: Journal AWWA serves as the voice of the water industry and is an authoritative source of information for water professionals and the communities they serve. Journal AWWA provides an international forum for the industry’s thought and practice leaders to share their perspectives and experiences with the goal of continuous improvement of all water systems. Journal AWWA publishes articles about the water industry’s innovations, trends, controversies, and challenges, covering subjects such as public works planning, infrastructure management, human health, environmental protection, finance, and law. Journal AWWA will continue its long history of publishing in-depth and innovative articles on protecting the safety of our water, the reliability and resilience of our water systems, and the health of our environment and communities.
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