Imagine a Day Without Water Campaign - October 10th

City of Edgewater Joins Fourth Annual Imagine a Day Without Water Campaign

to Raise Awareness About the Value of Water

The City of Edgewater joins elected officials, water utilities, community leaders, and businesses participating in the fourth annual Imagine a Day Without Water, a nationwide day of education and advocacy about the value of water. Led by the Value of Water Campaign, hundreds of organizations across the country will host events aimed at raising awareness about the crucial need for investment in our nation’s water infrastructure to ensure that no American community is left without safe and reliable water.

Recognizing that an investment in our drinking water and wastewater systems is essential to our national health, safety, and economic prosperity, the City will be posting different flyers to educate and remind our residents what it could be like without water.

This national day of action educates our neighbors and public officials about the essential role water plays in all of our lives. It is easy to take our water infrastructure for granted because it is underground and out of sight. We need to remember that the systems that carry our water to and from our homes need to be maintained and upgraded just like the visible infrastructure i.e., roads and bridges. It is time our nation takes action before we face a crisis.

Our nation’s water infrastructure is aging and in need of investment, having gone underfunded for decades. Drought, flooding, and climate change are stressing our water and wastewater systems. A single nationwide day without water service would put $43.5 billion of economic activity at risk. In just eight days, a national water service stoppage would put nearly 2 million jobs in jeopardy. According to the Imagine a Day Without Water 2017 reports and surveys. 

While many of these challenges are regionally-specific and will require locally-driven solutions, reinvestment in our water must be a national priority. Imagine a Day Without Water tells the stories of the challenges we face when our water infrastructure fails, but also of the innovative solutions being implemented in communities nationwide.

Despite the vast challenges facing American water infrastructure, the good news is that there is great opportunity in investment. A study conducted by the Value of Water Campaign has found that there is over $220 billion in economic activity to be gained nationwide by closing the water infrastructure investment gap. The American public is already widely supportive of implementing these needed investments. Above any other pressing political issue, Americans name rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure as the issue they most want our elected officials to address.

The Value of Water Campaign educates and inspires the nation about how water is essential, invaluable, and in need of investment. Spearheaded by top leaders in the water industry, the Value of Water Campaign is building public and political will for investment in America's water infrastructure.

IMAGINE:

No water to drink, or even to make coffee with. No water to shower, flush the toilet, or do laundry. Hospitals would close without water. Firefighters couldn't put out fires and farmers couldn't water their crops.

Some communities in America already know how impossible it is to try to go a day without our most precious resource: Water. But many Americans take water for granted every day. Imagine a Day Without Water 2018 is the fourth annual day to raise awareness and educate America about the value of water.