• Federal tax reform developments affecting private water utility companies: Seek to preserve interest deduction in tax reform; seek to ensure fair transition period for use of excess tax reserves. Seek legislation to remove volume cap for private purpose tax-exempt bonds issued for water or wastewater infrastructure projects.

Duration: August 2, 2017 to December 31, 2017

General Issues: Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $30,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2017: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives

Affiliated organizations: National Association of Water Companies