It’s safe to say our municipal pipes and plants are aging. According to an EPA survey, about 30 percent of pipes are 40 to 80 years old, and roughly 10 percent of pipes are more than 80 years old.In 2002, the EPA released the Clean Water and Drinking Water Gap Analysis Report, which compared what the country needs in water infrastructure updates to the revenue actually available to complete such projects. At that time, the EPA projected a funding gap of more than $500 billion over the next 20 years.Eleven years have passed, and that estimate is now considered extremely
