infrastructure

How Privatizing Water Systems Costs Taxpayers — & Endangers Them

Illustration by Lisa Lee Lucas for Heavy A yearlong investigation by Heavy found that privatized water management has been a…

8 years ago

Here Are the Places That Struggle to Meet the Rules on Safe Drinking Water

WASHINGTON — To ensure that tap water in the United States is safe to drink, the federal government has been…

8 years ago

Louisiana, Sinking Fast, Prepares to Empty Its Coastal Plain

State weighs buyouts, prohibiting new development, tax hikes Policy could become template for climate adaptation nationwide Louisiana is finalizing a…

8 years ago

Don’t be silent about the EPA Clean Water rollback

What happens when you can't trust water from the tap? photo: Shutterstock In the United States, we have developed public…

9 years ago

10 facts about water policy and infrastructure in the USA

From the water safety crisis in Flint, Michigan to the near-disaster with the Oroville Dam in California, a string of…

9 years ago