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USEPA 2011 Infrastructure Investment Needs Survey
Author(s) -
Job Charles
Publication year - 2011
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.1551-8833.2011.tb11425.x
Subject(s) - water infrastructure , agency (philosophy) , investment (military) , business , survey research , critical infrastructure , finance , environmental planning , environmental economics , water supply , engineering , environmental science , economics , environmental engineering , computer science , computer security , political science , business administration , philosophy , epistemology , politics , law
This article discusses the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA's) 2011 Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey, which assesses the extent to which U.S. public water systems' infrastructure should be upgraded and replaced. The results of this survey serve as the basis for allotting each state's share of the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF), which provides financing for water systems' infrastructure investments. The article also briefly discusses the first two surveys in 1995 and 1999, and the critiques of these two surveys were considered when the 2003 survey was designed to better capture the longer‐term investment needs. the 2007 survey continued the 2003 survey's achievement of better capturing the longer‐term infrastructure replacement and rehabilitation needs but in a much more consistent manner across water systems and states.