National Drinking Water Alliance
- Mar 31, 2022
Bipartisan Policy Center Calls for Drinking Water Supports
In January 2022, the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) released their report Strengthening the Child Nutrition Programs. The report outlines opportunities for improvement during congressional reauthorization of the federal child nutrition programs (school meal programs, the Child and Adult Care Food Program [CACFP] and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children [WIC]). Under Policy Recommendation 2, “Strengthen nutrition in the school nutrition p
National Drinking Water Alliance
- Mar 25, 2022
National Clinical Care Commission Makes Drinking Water Recommendations to Congress
In a recent report to Congress, the National Clinical Care Commission emphasized the importance of moving people from consumption of sugary drinks to plain water as a key strategy for reducing type 2 diabetes in the United States. Pages 38-41 of the report, "Leveraging Federal Programs to Prevent and Control Diabetes and Its Complications,” provide the following recommendations, long-supported by the National Drinking Water Alliance: Recommendation 4.4: The National Clinical
National Drinking Water Alliance
- Mar 21, 2022
Sugar Science Explains Urgency of Drinking Water Promotion
Sugary drinks are the largest single source of calories and added sugars in the U.S. diet, particularly those of children and youths. Growing scientific evidence indicates that, independent of calories, added sugars have detrimental metabolic effects that are not due to weight gain and occur even in the absence of weight gain. Diet-related diseases are increasingly at crisis level in the U.S. Low-income communities and communities of color are targeted for sugary drink market
National Drinking Water Alliance
- Mar 19, 2022
Alliance Writes to Congress on Drinking Water
In March 2022, thirty-six organizations and thirty-nine individuals endorsed letters sent to the Senate Agriculture Committee and the House Education and Labor Committee, the Congressional committees that oversee reauthorization of the child nutrition programs. The letters provided recommendations for ways in which child nutrition programs, School Nutrition Programs, the Child and Adult Care Food Program, and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and
