Comments on: Happy Drinking Water Week! https://swefc.unm.edu/home/happy-drinking-water-week/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happy-drinking-water-week Southwest Environmental Finance Center Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:00:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Southwest Environmental Finance Center https://swefc.unm.edu/home/happy-drinking-water-week/#comment-6 Tue, 09 May 2017 15:09:20 +0000 http://southwestefc.unm.edu/?p=394#comment-6 In reply to Tom Roberts.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experience, Tom!

]]> By: Tom Roberts https://swefc.unm.edu/home/happy-drinking-water-week/#comment-5 Tue, 09 May 2017 12:39:21 +0000 http://southwestefc.unm.edu/?p=394#comment-5 For as long as I can remember, water has been part of my life. Growing up in the Midwest, I would go to summer camp where I learned to swim, fish, water ski and sail on the lakes of Wisconsin. As I grew up, water continued to play a role in my life including having a sailboat on the Chesapeake, steelhead fishing in Erie, PA and vacationing at the beaches of lower Delaware. It seemed natural that I chose a water utility as the path for my career. Over the years, I have seen my industry become a more prominent public discussion topic. As infrastructure ages and costs to replace the infrastructure our parents, grandparents and great grandparents benefited from continues to rise, this conversation will likely grow. We will all benefit from this continued dialog about the water utility infrastructure challenges.
My professional life has now taken me to a position where I am reaching out to small systems across the United States. These are some of the most vulnerable communities when it comes to providing the service that many of the large, well-funded utilities provide on a daily basis. As a society, we must remember that these communities need the same or more attention as the larger communities. We must continue to have the tough discussions about funding alternatives and consolidation. Whether you live in a large metropolitan area or a rural community; there is no alternative to a clean reliable water supply.

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