When I turn on the faucet water comes out; isn’t the concern about water infrastructure over blown?
The American Society of Civil Engineers gives water and wastewater systems a D-, the lowest grade of any infrastructure category. According to EPA, approximately 240,000 water main breaks occur each year, resulting in disruptions in service and threats to public health across the country. In addition, while water supplies in many parts of the country, but particularly in the west, are under strain to meet rising water demand, the current system wastes huge amounts of water. EPA estimates that over 6 billion gallons of water a day are lost to leaking pipes. That is enough water to fill over 9,000 Olympic sized pools. Lined up end to end, those pools would reach from one end of Pennsylvania to the other. In less than 10 days the United States loses enough water to fill enough Olympic pools to allow you to swim across country from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans. Not only does this waste water, it also wastes energy.
