Blog: Does the US need a federal Department of Water?
Climate change has contributed to dramatic weather events. With severe flooding and drought happening across the nation, the U.S. needs a national water strategy to manage outdated infrastructure and technology, according to a presentation at the most recent MIT Water Summit. … In his presentation at the summit, [Aaron Mandell, founder and CEO of Wacomet Water] detailed three areas of concern a Department of Water could coordinate at the federal level. Mandell is an advocate for desalination, a technological process that removes minerals from saline water to make it drinkable. The ability to generate potable water on a large scale through this process would represent “an incredible domestic resource” that could help create economic stability.