{"id":82808,"date":"2018-09-19T07:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/changes-are-needed-to-fund-us-water-infrastructure"},"modified":"2018-09-19T07:02:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:02:23","slug":"changes-are-needed-to-fund-us-water-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/changes-are-needed-to-fund-us-water-infrastructure","title":{"rendered":"Changes are needed to fund US water infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/changes-are-needed-to-fund-us-water-infrastructure2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Water infrastructure in the western United States was funded in the early and mid-20th Century by federal financing through the Bureau of Reclamation, but such financing has declined in recent decades and there has been increased interest in alternative approaches to infrastructure funding. A new <i>Journal of the American Water Resources Association<\/i> article notes that two of these approaches\u2014public-private partnerships and loan guarantees\u2014are hampered by existing federal budgetary policies, however.<\/p>\n<p>In the article, Dr. Martin Doyle, of Duke University, notes that significant policy changes are needed to allow private capital to play an important role in funding and financing water systems characterized by aging infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone likes the idea of bringing more private capital to aging <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/infrastructure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">infrastructure<\/a>; but no one is able, or willing, to get into the really weedy details of policy changes necessary to make such investments possible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-09-fund-infrastructure.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;09-fund-infrastructure.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water infrastructure in the western United States was funded in the early and mid-20th Century by federal financing through the Bureau of Reclamation, but such financing has declined in recent decades and there has been increased interest in alternative approaches to infrastructure funding. A new Journal of the American Water Resources Association article notes that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82808","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=82808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}