To defer is human, to maintain – sublime
- From: Vol 10, Issue 7 (July 2009)
- Category: General
- Region: Americas
- Country: United States
- Related Companies: American Water Works Association (AWWA) and Janney Montgomery Scott
Deferring infrastructure maintenance can hit municipalities hard when disaster strikes. It can also hamper their ability to raise money to address the problem, as Kathy Shandling discovers.
A handful of topics dominated the discussions at the AWWA annual conference this year, including the energy/water nexus, the impact of climate change, funding challenges, water reuse, and the ever-present spectre of deferred infrastructure maintenance.
In recent years, the US has witnessed a series of very visible incidents closely linked to deteriorating infrastructure – the bridge collapse in Minneapolis, the ...
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