The Importance of Infrastructure

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Every year this is costing the American household over $3,000 in hidden costs for our poor infrastructure. We don't want to have to wait for a bridge collapse or a whole city needing to boil its water. And too many times, especially with the water system, whether it's a sanitary pipe or a drinking water pipe, it's out of sight and out of mind for 99%.

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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