The General Accountability Office estimated in 2002 that through 2022 U.S. water utilities would have to invest between $493 and $820 billion in aging water and wastewater infrastructure to continue delivery of clean, safe water supplies. Today, the utilities are not on pace to meet these funding requirements.rnA recent report by the Gannett News Service found that from 2003 to 2008 more than one-third of the nation's large, publicly owned sewage treatment systems were the subject of formal enforcement actions by regulators for sewage spills or other violations. The report cited lack of finances as a cause of the problem.
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