Friday, February 20, 2026

How's that DEI hiring working out at DC water?

 Need you ask? "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.

I'm wondering: did Gadis leave this off his resume? 

David Gadis, the first black CEO of a “major water utility”, had last been in the news during his tenure with Veolia Water. During that time, Veolia was accused of helping cover up the water disaster in Flint, Michigan in that city’s water crisis.
Veolia later paid out $78 million to tens of thousands of Flint residents.

Sounds like criminal malfeasance may be at work here. Perhaps an appropriate punishment would be to throw Gadis in the Potomac and make him swim to shore. 

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