New Infrastructure Law Provides Utilities Opportunity To Invest In Water Loss Prevention

In the United States alone, an estimated 6 billion gallons of treated water are lost every day, mainly due to leaks and aging infrastructure. This not only wastes a precious resource — one that is growing increasingly scarce as climate change intensifies — it wastes thousands of dollars that utilities can’t afford to lose.

To start to tackle this problem, President Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act into law in the fall of 2021, allotting $50 billion specifically to improve the nation’s drinking water and wastewater systems. This marks the single largest investment in clean water ever made by the federal government.

“Historically, we haven’t invested in our infrastructure as well as we could have,” said Door. “On top of that, our infrastructure is coping with a growing population that is growing at a frantic rate in certain parts of the U.S. And we are trying to keep on top of our aging infrastructure, parts of which are 150 years old and even older. The fact that the government has decided to release some long-needed investment in the infrastructure of our vastly under-maintained, overused system is brilliant.”