Dark water rising

American City and County: Buried underneath America’s homes, businesses and schools there’s a problem steadily growing. It threatens our economy, our safety and our way of life. The problem is mounting, there are few actively working to solve it, and in many cases, we don’t know where it is until something goes wrong.

There are nearly 170,000 public drinking water systems, 14,780 wastewater treatment facilities and 19,740 wastewater pipe systems crisscrossing the American landscape. However, this infrastructure is aging, deteriorating, crumbling – and if immediate action isn’t taken, the results could be catastrophic.

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