The United States is sitting on top of a massive amount of aging infrastructure that continues to disintegrate at an alarming rate. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, the U.S. suffers from 240,000 water main breaks a year. That’s roughly 700 water main breaks each day.
The continued disintegration of the U.S. water infrastructure is due to the Falling EROI- Energy Returned On Investment. Of course it is true that Local, State and Federal Governments are funneling a lot of tax payer money to corrupt institutions, highly paid retried pensioners and to pay debt or interest on debt.
However, the Falling EROI of U.S. oil is not allowing enough profitable barrels of oil to maintain our infrastructure. I believe the aging U.S. infrastructure will continue to rot, especially when the next financial and economic collapse occurs. There just won’t be the available surplus funds to replace or repair all this massive aging infrastructure.
Americans need to understand the huge problem growing beneath the surface. Again, U.S. infrastructure will continue to disintegrate and become increasingly unreliable in the future.
DYI
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