I first heard about this looming crisis from Greg Chartier. Cities are neither willing nor able to fix their sewers.
… an estimated $390 billion worth of work needs to be done on the nation’s sewage systems over the next 20 years, according to the environmental group American Rivers—a cost that local officials say has residents clutching at their purse strings.
“A lot of cities don’t want to borrow to do this work,” Kevin Baskins, spokesman for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, tells USA Today.
Rick McCharles 