A surefire strategy to improve water infrastructure in Flint and beyond (Joseph Kane, Lynn Broaddus, Brookings)

As Flint’s water crisis continues to reverberate nationally, policymakers have turned their attention to the fundamental infrastructure challenges at hand. From Los Angeles to New York, many regions are not only contending with aging, overburdened water facilities—including areas with lead pipes similar to Flint—but are also confronting an enormous backlog of costs, severe financial constraints, and difficulty in coordinating action across thousands of individual community water systems.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2016/03/18-water-infrastructure-flint-kane-broaddus