{"id":78422,"date":"2018-05-08T08:02:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T15:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/americas-water-infrastructure-is-failing-but-heres-how-we-could-start-to-fix-it"},"modified":"2018-05-09T11:03:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T18:03:17","slug":"americas-water-infrastructure-is-failing-but-heres-how-we-could-start-to-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/americas-water-infrastructure-is-failing-but-heres-how-we-could-start-to-fix-it","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s water infrastructure is failing\u2014but here\u2019s how we could start to fix it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/americas-water-infrastructure-is-failing-but-heres-how-we-could-start-to-fix-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s water is under threat from many sides. It faces pollution problems, outdated infrastructure, rising costs, and unprecedented droughts and rainfall patterns as the climate changes. Yet at a recent event hosted by the Columbia Water Center, the tone was cautiously optimistic, and the conversation centered on solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we have aging <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/infrastructure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">infrastructure<\/a> that\u2019s falling apart, and we\u2019re dealing with climate variability and change, isn\u2019t that a good opportunity to actually do something?\u201d suggested Upmanu Lall, director of the Columbia Water Center.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, the U.S. has been a leader in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/water+management\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">water management<\/a>. Now we\u2019re falling behind; in the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infrastructurereportcard.org\/\">infrastructure report card<\/a>, dams, drinking water and wastewater all received D ratings. But Lall thinks the country could get an A. Here are some of the solutions, presented at the event, that could help to get us there.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-05-america-infrastructure-failingbut.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;05-america-infrastructure-failingbut.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s water is under threat from many sides. It faces pollution problems, outdated infrastructure, rising costs, and unprecedented droughts and rainfall patterns as the climate changes. Yet at a recent event hosted by the Columbia Water Center, the tone was cautiously optimistic, and the conversation centered on solutions. \u201cIf we have aging infrastructure that\u2019s falling [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,269,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-life-extension","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78474,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78422\/revisions\/78474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}