Increased flood risks across the United States are putting the country’s water and sewage treatment plants under threat.
Most of these treatment plants are located near bodies of water and at communities’ lowest level, leaving them at greatest vulnerability for flooding.
The risk of this vital infrastructure flooding has only grown with climate change, something the U.S. government’s own flood risk assessment has failed to take into account.
Given that rebuilding water treatment plants can cost hundreds of millions of dollars, this looming threat has put impoverished communities and small towns in the biggest danger of a devastating disaster to their water and sewage infrastructure.
