President's budget request again slashes federal water infrastructure funding

On Tuesday [March 4th], the Obama Administration released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 Budget request proposing deep cuts to water infrastructure investment programs. Specifically, the Administration’s budget includes $581 million in cuts to the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (SRF) programs, requesting $1.018 billion and $757 million for each program respectively. This is the third consecutive budget request that has proposed steep cuts to these Funds.