{"id":29121,"date":"2026-01-20T15:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=29121"},"modified":"2026-01-20T15:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:09:11","slug":"sen-ossoff-working-to-expand-access-to-clean-water-in-rural-georgia","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-working-to-expand-access-to-clean-water-in-rural-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Working to Expand Access to Clean Water in Rural Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is supporting bipartisan legislation to improve access to clean drinking water in rural Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff is co-sponsoring a bipartisan bill to make it easier for rural communities to upgrade their water infrastructure and protect health by removing harmful contaminants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bipartisan bill, led by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Susan Collins (R-ME), would allow states to request Federal assistance on behalf of communities with fewer than 10,000 residents and private well owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEvery Georgian deserves clean drinking water. This bipartisan bill will help improve access to clean drinking water for Georgians,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff continues working to ensure Georgians have clean drinking water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-working-across-the-aisle-to-upgrade-rural-water-infrastructure\/\">cosponsored<\/a>&nbsp;the bipartisan&nbsp;<em>Rural Water System Disaster Preparedness and Assistance Act<\/em>&nbsp;to improve water infrastructure systems across rural Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2024, Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gefa.georgia.gov\/press-releases\/2024-11-14\/georgia-communities-awarded-367-million-loan-funding-lead-service-line\">delivered<\/a>&nbsp;over $36 million through the bipartisan infrastructure law for lead pipe replacement projects across Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022, Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoffs-legislation-to-preserve-protect-chattahoochee-river-signed-into-law\/\">passed into law<\/a>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em>Chattahoochee River Act<\/em>, a first-of-its-kind law that authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to work on water projects up and down the Chattahoochee River throughout the state of Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In November 2021, President Biden&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/breaking-president-biden-signs-sen-ossoff-provision-to-remove-lead-water-pipes-from-public-schools-into-law\/\">signed<\/a>&nbsp;Sen. Ossoff\u2019s provision to repair and remove lead water pipes from public schools into law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/senate-bill\/1324\">Click here<\/a>&nbsp;to read the bill.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is supporting bipartisan legislation to improve access to clean drinking water in rural Georgia. Sen. Ossoff is co-sponsoring a bipartisan bill to make it easier for rural communities to upgrade their water infrastructure and protect health by removing harmful contaminants. The bipartisan bill, led by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29121","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29122,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29121\/revisions\/29122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}