SRF-in’ USA: water and the stimulus package

The proportion of the US stimulus package which will find its way into water is not likely to be large, nor the funds well distributed. Nevertheless, the idea of free money from Washington must not be allowed to take hold.

There are few doubts that the US economic stimulus package will be approved soon after Barack Obama is inaugurated as president on 20 January. There are, however, more questions about the size of the stimulus and the amount devoted to each sector. In water, the December proposal by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, states that the federal government should ...

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