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The Infrastructure Issue
Author(s) -
Hoffbuhr Jack W.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2001.tb09213.x
Subject(s) - water infrastructure , agency (philosophy) , safe drinking water act , critical infrastructure , business , environmental planning , environmental science , water supply , water quality , environmental engineering , computer science , computer security , ecology , philosophy , epistemology , biology
In his column, AWWA Executive Director Jack Hoffbuhr discusses infrastructure needs for the 21st century and provides estimates from both the Water Infrastructure Network (WIN) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) that indicate significantly increasing costs for drinking water infrastructure. The WIN report estimates that in the next 20 years drinking water systems will have to invest about $300 billion more than their current level of spending to keep up with both compliance and infrastructure replacement needs. The USEPA released a separate needs estimate based on a survey of large water systems that suggests that drinking water systems will need an additional $150 billion in the next 20‐year period.