Government officials testified about the infrastructure needs at recent senate hearing. Good morning. I call this hearing to order. Today we are holding a hearing to highlight the importance of passing a new Water Resource Development act or werda during the 1 is 5th congress. It authorizes funding for the army corps of engineers Water Works Program which need past wedder today provisions. Prior congresses have too additionally passed werda on biannual basis going back to 1986. Unlike other contentious issues, historically, republican and democratic members of this Senate Environmental Public Works Committee, have been able to pass werda legislation. This is legislation that moves. Regardless of Party Affiliation we understand these kinds of investment are par too important to the community to fall to partisan politics. This represents a did i veers group of communities with different needs. Our committee has members that represent baltimore, maryland, anchorage, alaska. Wyoming and wi
Were now going to move on from a series of questions. Ill start with you if i can. Many stakeholders who work with the corps of engineers have comment and complained a little bit about the process it follows from identifying a Water Resources problem to implementing a solution and can be long costly delays. For example, in the arid west, there are many water supply challenges that havent yet been solved such as removing sediment from reservoirs to providing more water supply capacity and effectively managing multiwater supply needs such as flood Risk Management, drinking water, irrigation, all from a single reservoir. So as a result, the water supply is becoming scarce and more expensive. Can you please share in any thoughts you might have to improve the corpss processes so that the water resource projects are operated more efficiently. Thank you, senator. We actually have a number of suggestion, but in the interests of time, im going to limit it to two. First improve the governmental
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