Washington Aqueduct manager a champion for clean drinking water

On this week’s episode of Leaders and Legends in Government, Aileen Black spoke with Tom Jacobus, the general manager of the Washington Aqueduct, servicing the District of Columbia and parts of Northern Virginia. The aqueduct has been in place since 1853, and still operates with the original legacy of having a gravity-based system. He said using this simple system saves hundreds of thousands of dollars in pumping costs each year.