Despite broad opposition throughout the professional water community – including local government, engineering, and water utility groups – the plastic industry continues to try and pass top-down, red-tape-filled legislation that would both delay much-needed water projects and increase costs for communities, but also ignores the input from local communities in designing the water projects that will best serve their needs.
There is widespread opposition to this effort from numerous groups, including the American Water Works Association (AWWA), the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), National Rural Water Association (NRWA), National Association of County Officials (NACo), National League of Cities (NLC) and the U.S. Conference of Mayors, among others.