EPA Official Highlights Challenges To Accurate Infrastructure Estimates

摘要

EPA's top water official is highlighting challenges the agency faces in crafting accurate water infrastructure needs estimates in its surveys, suggesting that the agency's current assessment of a combined $655 billion in funding needs for wastewater and drinking water infrastructure project is likely underestimated. EPA's latest Clean Watersheds Needs Survey, issued in January after a length review by EPA and the White House Office of Management & Budget, identified a $271 billion need, combined with a total 20-year capital improvement need of $384.2 billion for drinking water utilities in the agency's 2011 assessment (Water Policy Report, Jan. 25).