Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, unexpired 2-year term

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) is responsible for protecting homes and businesses from flood damage and for protecting the water quality of Lake Michigan and Chicago-area rivers and streams. The nine-member Board of Commissioners invests in infrastructure projects like a system of deep tunnels and reservoirs. The MWRD also treats wastewater from Chicago and 128 surrounding communities at seven water reclamation plants. Commissioners are elected and serve on a part-time basis.

Candidates

Cameron “Cam” Davis

Incumbent Democrat

“For more than four decades, Cam has been a clean water advocate, as President Obama’s ‘Great Lakes Czar,’ as president & CEO of the Chicago-based Alliance for the Great Lakes, and as a former environmental professor at the University of Michigan Law School.”