2018 Preview: What Not to Ignore About Water Infrastructure

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2018 Preview: What Not to Ignore About Water Infrastructure

Communities need to invest in and maintain water systems.

Nearly everyone agrees that significant investment is necessary, especially as a warming planet renders old design assumptions obsolete. Perpetually low-performance grades, just above failing, from the American Society of Civil Engineers attest to serious deficiencies in the nation’s connective hardware.

But simply building more stuff, infrastructure experts argue, can set up communities for long-term financial failure. Maintenance, they say, should be a bigger part of the infrastructure equation.

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