• Increase congressional support for public, community, and U.S. military access to new technologies for providing new supplies of desalinated, mineral-rich water, with corresponding long-term heath benefits for individuals and the public and military health systems.

Duration: December 1, 2008 to present

May Have Ended?

General Issues: Natural Resources, Health Issues, Defense, Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $0 (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 2008: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate