River Network State Policy Showcase: State Funding Programs for Water

From River Network:

Some states have created comprehensive initiatives to address their most pressing water issues in combination with sustained funding. Texas’ recent Prop 4 ballot initiative, which was passed by voters in November 2025, dedicates $1 billion per year for the next 20 years to Texas Water Fund, a state fund established to finance water projects in Texas. In Delaware, the Clean Water Initiative for Underserved Communities, funded through the Clean Water Trust, delivers critical support to infrastructure projects. 

In our next State Policy Showcase we will be joined by Usman Mahmood, Policy Analyst, Bayou City Waterkeeper, and Mark Nardone, Director of Advocacy at Delaware Nature Society, who will tell us about state-level water funding initiatives in Texas and Delaware.  

In both case studies, we will hear about the nuts-and-bolts of each state’s water funding policy as well as the strategies and enabling conditions that led their state leaders and voters to act. 

Following the case studies, we’ll have an open group discussions on where these types of policies might be ripe in other states, barriers and roadblocks you’re likely to encounter, strategies you’d use to overcome barriers, windows of opportunity you’d look for, coalitions you’d want to build, and other strategies you see are needed to successfully advance water funding policy. 

Please join us on Wednesday, March 25th at 3 pm ET (2:00 pm CT) for our next State Policy Showcase on state funding programs for water. REGISTER today.