Why Does Climate Change Matter?

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The pipes that we put in the ground 50 years ago are simply not meant to handle what we're experiencing now. In 2020, it's estimated that about 12,000 miles of pipe were replaced. It is generally when you start talking about how much of this you can replace in a given year. You think about how many years it's going to take for us to upgrade all of this water infrastructure.

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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