The Biden administration on Tuesday announced $5.8 billion in funding that will go out to every state and territory to help fix an ailing water infrastructure that continues to put millions of Americans’ health at risk.
Michael Regan, administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency, and Vice President Kamala Harris will be in Pittsburgh on Tuesday to promote the administration’s efforts to ensure a safer drinking water system and more reliable wastewater infrastructure. Projects underway in Pittsburgh – such as an effort to get rid of lead pipes – are among several across the country that are being funded through bipartisan 2021 legislation that designated $50 billion toward improving water infrastructure.
It’s literally nothing. Not even a drop in the bucket
^This. The city I live needs at least $1bn to fix the janky water and sewer system due to lack of upkeep and the Frankenstein-esque way they just added new parts to the system Civil war era onward. Every time there’s too much rain the sewer system backs up into the local river that people still swim in, yum.