State and federal studies indicate that thousands of water and sewer systems may be too old to function properly.
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More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.
One goal of the Clean Water Act of 1972 was to upgrade the nation's sewer systems, many of them built more than a century ago, to handle growing populations and increasing runoff of rainwater and waste.
As utility companies work to achieve full compliance with clean water standards, Congress must ensure our nation's most vulnerable are not priced out of life's most essential resource.
Aging is mostly the failure to repair.
Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.
In 2000, twice as much water was used throughout the world as in 1960. By 2050, half of the planet's projected 8.9 billion people will live in countries that are chronically short of water.
There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water.
Water's about everything. And when the federal government controls water, it controls everything - that's the problem.
With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.
You can see how an increase in the water level would wipe out hundreds of thousands of people's homes.
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