The first in a two-part conversation with DC Water chief George Hawkins: Where will the money come from to allow water utilities to move into the future while fixing the past and still keep operating in the present? In two weeks: the second part of our conversation in which Hawkins addresses the Flint crisis and talks about new monitoring technology that might help prevent something like it from happening again.

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