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Tapping Into Drinking Water: a Human Right and Precious Resource

May 28, 2019 | Maria Brodine
Tags: climate adaptation & resilience, drinking water, environmental justice & diversity, equitable development

Learn where your water comes from, how it’s treated, stored and distributed, and what policies and practices need to be in place to ensure that people have access to clean drinking water now and in the future.

Broken Pipes, Pumps, and Practices: America’s Big Water Infrastructure Crisis

August 22, 2017 | Maria Brodine
Tags: drinking water, funding, sewer overflows, stormwater & green infrastructure, watershed planning, wetlands, workforce development

It’s no secret that infrastructure—including electric grids, fossil fuel pipelines, public transportation lines, bridges, railways, and roads—are in a rapid state of decline in the U.S., and that there is not nearly enough money allocated to their repair and maintenance. Central to that problem and probably the most alarming aspect of it is the fact that water infrastructure systems—the pipes that bring us treated water and the sewer lines that take waste water away—are in various states of disrepair all around the country.