OUR CHALLENGE
Further, the global population is growing, the infrastructure is deteriorating, and funding is declining:
"If capital investments remain[ ] at current levels, the potential gap between
spending and needs between 2000 and 2019 would be approximately $122
billion for wastewater infrastructure and $102 billion for drinking water
infrastructure."
-- EPA, 2002
"If ...population forecasts are projected ... to the year 2025, without significant
investment in additional treatment capacity, the level of pollution being
discharged into the nation?s waters could reach rates not seen since 1968."
-- H. Rep. 110-30