Did DEI Cause D.C. Sewage Disaster?
After complaining about a water industry that was terrible because it “had too many white men at the top”, DC Water CEO David Gadis bragged that, “My executive team, you know, looks exactly like the community… people of color.” 7 out of 9 members of the DC Water leadership team are black. 5 are women. This hasn’t done anything to get the sewage back in the pipe. Or decontaminate the Potomac. The DC Water 2023 report was titled ‘Water Equity for All’ and had Gadis bragging that “in recent years, DC Water has established itself as the national gold standard when it comes to delivering water equity.” DC Water is now at the epicenter of the massive Potomac sewage spill in which hundreds of millions of gallons of wastewater poured into the river in one of the worst sewage spills in American history. But at least the D.C. Water’s executive team “looks exactly like the community” whose lives they’re wrecking. Or do they? CEO Gadis had pitched his focus on contracting with “minority and wome...