DC Water’s chairwoman, Unique N. Morris-Hughes, knows nothing about public-utility management.

She is the headmistress of Washington, D.C.’s Employment Services department. In that job and others, she has managed hundreds of millions of dollars in tax money. Her “career spans the for-profit and nonprofit sectors,” her biography says, and “she has several years of experience in education, program development, evaluation, and compliance.”

None of which qualifies her to oversee DC Water.

During an undated interview on X, she said she was “on a mission to make sure black and brown kids have experience in the workplace.”

Whatever her inexperience with water, Hughes is good at one thing: Spending tax money against regulations, the Washington City Paper revealed in December. She “violated several D.C. regulations when she approved tens of thousands of dollars in public funds for food and entertainment for all-staff events, according to findings from the D.C. Office of the Inspector General [OIG],

DC Water CEO David Gadis — named in a lawsuit about Flint, Michigan’s water crisis — has distributed $520 million in DEI contracts, the Daily Caller reported.

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