Join us for our next State Policy Showcase! Usman Mahmood, Policy Analyst, Bayou City Waterkeeper, and Mark Nardone, Director of Advocacy at Delaware Nature Society, will tell us about state-level water funding initiatives in Texas and Delaware – including the nuts-and-bolts of the policy and what drove action by decision makers.

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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 for our next State Policy Showcase on state funding programs for water. REGISTER today. 

About the State Policy Showcases 

“State Policy Showcases” are an ongoing learning session series we offer at River Network.  

We’ve heard from you! Water advocates across the country who work on advancing progressive water policy at the state level have been telling us for a while that they would find it helpful if we could highlight state policy successes on a variety of clean water issues. You’ve told us that you’re interested in both the “nuts and bolts” of the policy and how it works, as well as the “how-to” and what it took to get the policy adopted including the strategy, campaigns, coalitions, etc. 

We host several showcases a year. We want to feature different water-related policies and case studies from network members who worked on getting those policies adopted during each showcase, as well as facilitate discussion so you can ask questions and share your ideas and experiences. 

If you have a suggestion for a policy you’d like to learn about or a case study you’d like to share – as well as any other feedback on this idea – please reach out and let us know. 

And stay-tuned! We have more state policy showcases on-deck for later this year. Details coming soon!