On Tuesday, Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyoming) and Senator Tom Carper (D-Delaware) of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released a pair of draft bills aimed at boosting the country's water infrastructure. The bills are titled America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2020 (AWIA 2020) and the Drinking Water Infrastructure Act of 2020. Both bills build on the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (S. 3021) that was signed into law in 2018. The draft of AWIA 2020 includes approximately $17 billion for increasing water storage, providing protection from dangerous floodwaters, deepening nationally significant ports, and maintaining the navigability of inland waterways across the country. The draft of the Drinking Water Infrastructure Act of 2020 includes approximately $2.5 billion to reauthorize programs under the Safe Drinking Water Act to provide resources and technical assistance to communities to help meet their drinking water needs. The section-by-section of the draft AWIA 2020 is available here, and the section-by-section of the Drinking Water Infrastructure Act is found here
