Editor’s Note: The following open letter has been signed by 218 organizations. To view a PDF of the letter and a list of the organizations that signed it, click here. Dear Majority Leader Schumer, ...

It was 2015, and the city of Missoula, Montana, was fighting to take control of its water supply. Missoula’s privately owned waterworks had recently been sold to Mountain Water, a company owned by the ...

The financial impact of COVID-19 has been devastating for public water operators around the world. Millions of households and businesses have not been able to pay their water bills due to lost income, ...

"Water is — and always should be — a public good. Cutting corners and endangering the public to deliver profits for a private corporation is the height of greed and disregard for the people’s ...

When Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves announced in mid-September that the state was lifting its weeks-long boil order for Jackson, it sounded like a declaration of victory: “We have restored clean ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the summer of 2022, heavy rainfall damaged a water treatment plant in the city of ...

A month after winter storms wreaked havoc across the U.S. South, Jackson, Mississippi is still in the midst of a major crisis. As of March 5, thousands of residents continued to lack water service, ...

Failing water systems have plagued cities across the country for decades. But a lack of willingness to invest in our nation’s infrastructure has made such crises inevitable. It’s no accident that over ...

At the end of August, the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC), appointed by the Biden administration, published a document with policy recommendations to address the deepening water crisis ...

A water main break shoots water into the air in the Banksville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, where the Pennsylvania American Water Company is the service provider. (Morgan Timms / Pittsburgh ...