Broken Pipes, Pumps, and Practices: America’s Big Water Infrastructure Crisis
| Maria BrodineTags: 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.
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