2018 Preview: What Not to Ignore About Water Infrastructure
Published on by Brett Walton in Social
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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Taxonomy
- Drinking Water Security
- Water Supply
- Access
- Water Supply
- Leakage
- Drinking Water Managment
- Drinking Water
- Infrastructure
- Integrated Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Management
3 Comments
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All projects concerning water must have a clause requiring yearly maintenance in the budget. Maintenance is a must and it is always cheaper over the years to maintain than to replace!!!
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Brett Walton, thank you for sharing your article with us!
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In my view one major challenge has been competing imperatives (political, economic, moral, etc) for building water infrastructure. We can have stronger water infrastructure projects if these imperatives collaborate rather than compete.