Darren Olson is a water resources engineer based in Illinois. He vice chairs a committee that grades US infrastructure like a report card. The U.S. got 11 D's, four C's, two B's and an overall grade of C minus. More than 900,000 Californians do not have access to clean drinking water.
What’s happening in Jackson is hardly unique: Cities and states across the US are setting themselves up for failure by postponing expensive but critical work on aging water infrastructure. Climate change is making things worse, faster.
This episode was produced by Jillian Weinberger and Amanda Lewellyn with help from Victoria Chamberlin and Victoria Dominguez, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Serena Solin, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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