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The waterworks

FLINT SHOWED THE DANGER OF TAKING AN ESSENTIAL FOR GRANTED
An estimated $600 billion is needed to upgrade aging water- and wastewater-treatment plants across the nation

Clean water is as vital to the nation as roads and bridges, but it’s a piece of infrastructure Americans tend to take for granted—until something goes wrong. The latest reminder came in the form of the water crisis in Flint, Mich., in 2015, during

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