Addressing, adapting to Chicago's water system needs

Summary

<p>In the last decade, I have led the Chicago Department of Water Management twice. When I returned in 2024 after leaving in 2020, I saw how much the work of this urban water utility had changed.</p><p>Our mission remains the same: providing safe, high-quality drinking water and maintaining the infrastructure Chicagoans depend on. But our city’s challenges have changed, and our work must change with them.</p><p>Today, we face more intense rainfall, localized flooding, aging infrastructure and a historic effort to remove <a class="Link"…

Description from Chicago Sun-Times.