Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2025

Key Points

• This bill creates a permanent Trust Fund to pay for repairs to the nation's aging water and sewer systems. It would provide up to $35 billion every year to ensure Americans have access to safe, clean, and affordable water.
• To pay for these upgrades, the bill would raise the federal corporate tax rate from 21% to 24.5%. This money would go directly into fixing pipes, treatment plants, and school drinking fountains across the country.
• A major part of the plan focuses on health. It provides grants to replace lead pipes with safe copper ones at no cost to homeowners and helps communities clean up "forever chemicals" found in drinking water and household wells.
• The policy aims to help struggling families by studying why water bills are rising and looking for ways to prevent service shut-offs. It also sets aside specific funding for rural areas, tribal lands, and schools to ensure no community is left behind.
• It creates a new job training program for water and sewer workers. At least half of this training would be targeted toward people living in low-income areas or communities of color to help them get steady, good-paying jobs in the water industry.