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The Year in Water, 2022

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The Year in Water, 2022. Sharpening the Shark’s Teeth By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – December 13, 2022. Spend a few days at a water conference and you’ll hear a favored metaphor for the environmental changes that are unsettling the planet. If climate change is a shark, attendees will say, then water is the shark’s teeth.

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Five Fixes for Michigan’s Drinking Water Woes

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Congress passed two big, pandemic-related funding packages — the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the American Rescue Plan Act — that will funnel tens of billions of dollars into water infrastructure nationwide. . Throughout the Great Lakes region and across the U.S., water systems are aging. Here are five ideas: . Consolidate.

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Michigan’s ‘Very Big Opportunity’ in Infrastructure Windfall

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By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – May 11, 2022. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, approved by Congress and signed by President Biden last November, provides roughly $50 billion over five years for water and sewer systems, the largest federal infusion in the sector in a half century. water systems are aging.

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Some Michigan Water Systems Are Overbuilt, Underfunded. Are Mergers The Answer?

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Kelly House, Bridge Michigan – May 11, 2022. Clair River Corridor is just one place where state regulators are pushing towns to consolidate water systems for greater efficiency as aging, costly plants near their expiration date. Throughout the Great Lakes region and across the U.S., water systems are aging. Clair’s plant.

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