Progress on legislation to support water and sanitation programs

This week, the bipartisan Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2011 (S. 641) unanimously passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee!  Our thanks to the Committee’s leaders, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN), as well as the bill's sponsors, Senator Durbin (D-IL) and Senator Corker (R-TN). Your voices helped make this progress possible!  But the job is not done – the legislation still must pass the full Senate, and the House of Representatives still needs to pass a companion bill of the same name (H.R. 3658).  Our President and CEO, Caryl Stern, recently joined this letter with the leaders of more than 30 other organizations urging the House to move promptly on this bill.  You can help – keep contacting your Members of Congress to ask them to support the Water for the World Act!