Clean water legislation in Delaware

Delaware Rep. Bryan Shupe, R-Milford, was also at the event and got a shout-out from Sen. Carper. He’s currently promoting Delaware House Bill 69, which recently moved out of committee and would also promote access to clean water on a local level. The legislation sets out to help two categories of people.

“One is (people who are) on the lower end of the economic scale, and two is (the residents) that have unsafe drinking water in the state of Delaware,” Rep. Shupe said. “It helps them get a water-filtration system in their home.”There’s another bill being considered, HB 200, which would make changes to the Delaware code to raise water standards in the long term.“HB 200 is a great step forward toward getting allocation of money for larger infrastructure,” Rep. Shupe said.

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“It’s also going to take years to get those pipes to people’s houses,” he said, but “HB 69 allows those individuals to start getting water-filtration systems in their homes within months and access a stopgap, a short-term solution, while they have to wait for that long-term solution that may take five to 10 years.”He thinks the problem is bigger than it seems, both locally and nationally.“There’s a lot more need out there than we see at the ground level right now,” Rep. Shupe said.