#yiv2124539190 , #yiv2124539190 P, #yiv2124539190 TD, #yiv2124539190 TD P,
#yiv2124539190 TD UL, #yiv2124539190 TD BLOCKQUOTE, #yiv2124539190 BLOCKQUOTE {
color:black;font-family:Verdana, "Trebuchet MS" , sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}
#yiv2124539190 A:link {color:#003366;}
#yiv2124539190 A:visited {color:#003366;}
#yiv2124539190 A:active {color:#0000FF;}
#yiv2124539190 .bodybold {font-weight:bold;}#yiv2124539190
#yiv2124539190 .bodybold10px {font-weight:bold;font-size:10px;}#yiv2124539190
#yiv2124539190 .bodybold11px {font-weight:bold;font-size:11px;}#yiv2124539190
#yiv2124539190 .bodybold12px {font-weight:bold;font-size:12px;}#yiv2124539190
#yiv2124539190 .bodybold13px {font-weight:bold;font-size:13px;}
#yiv2124539190 .bodybold14px {font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;}
#yiv2124539190 .bodybold15px {font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;}
#yiv2124539190 .body8px {font-size:8px;}#yiv2124539190
#yiv2124539190 .body9px {font-size:9px;}#yiv2124539190
#yiv2124539190 .body10px {font-size:10px;}#yiv2124539190
#yiv2124539190 .body11px {font-size:11px;}#yiv2124539190
#yiv2124539190 .body12px {font-size:12px;}#yiv2124539190
#yiv2124539190 .body14px {font-size:14px;}#yiv2124539190
#yiv2124539190 .body16px {font-size:16px;}#yiv2124539190
#yiv2124539190 .body18px {font-size:18px;}#yiv2124539190
#yiv2124539190 .bodyunderline {text-decoration:underline;}
#yiv2124539190 .bodyitalic {font-style:italic;}
#yiv2124539190 .none {list-style-type:none;}
#yiv2124539190 .titleitalic {font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;}
#yiv2124539190 .titlebold {font-weight:bold;}#yiv2124539190
#yiv2124539190 .titlebold10px {font-weight:bold;font-size:10px;}
#yiv2124539190 .titlebold11px {font-weight:bold;font-size:11px;}
#yiv2124539190 .titlebold12px {font-weight:bold;font-size:12px;}
#yiv2124539190 .titlebold13px {font-weight:bold;font-size:13px;}
#yiv2124539190 .titlebold14px {font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;}
#yiv2124539190 .titlebold15px {font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;}
#yiv2124539190 .titlebold16px {font-weight:bold;font-size:16px;}
#yiv2124539190 .titlebold17px {font-weight:bold;font-size:17px;}
#yiv2124539190 .titlebold18px {font-weight:bold;font-size:18px;}
#yiv2124539190 .titlebold19px {font-weight:bold;font-size:19px;}
#yiv2124539190 .titlebold20px {font-weight:bold;font-size:20px;}
#yiv2124539190 .titlebold21px {font-weight:bold;font-size:21px;}
#yiv2124539190 .titlebold22px {font-weight:bold;font-size:22px;}
#yiv2124539190 .titlebold23px {font-weight:bold;font-size:23px;}
#yiv2124539190 .titlebold24px {font-weight:bold;font-size:24px;}
#yiv2124539190 .titlebold25px {font-weight:bold;font-size:25px;}
#yiv2124539190 .titlebold26px {font-weight:bold;font-size:26px;}
#yiv2124539190 .titlebold27px {font-weight:bold;font-size:27px;}
#yiv2124539190 .titlebold28px {font-weight:bold;font-size:28px;}
#yiv2124539190 .titlebold29px {font-weight:bold;font-size:29px;}
#yiv2124539190 .titlebold30px {font-weight:bold;font-size:30px;}
#yiv2124539190 .flashtitle {font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times,
serif;font-size:18px;}#yiv2124539190
#yiv2124539190 .monospace {font-family:Courier, monospace;}#yiv2124539190
#yiv2124539190 .roll
{text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal;color:black;}#yiv2124539190
#yiv2124539190 a.roll:hover
{text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal;color:D10000;}
News
For Immediate Release Monday, January 18, 2010
For Further Information, Contact:
Pete Sepp or Rachael Slobodien, (703) 683-5700
Analysis: Localities Could Save Taxpayers Huge Sums on Underground
Infrastructure with Competition, Better Materials
(Alexandria, VA) -- As the infrastructure that delivers water to your home
begins to deteriorate, governments at all levels need to take steps to ensure
they're not flushing taxpayer dollars down the drain when replacing the pipes,
according to an issue brief published by the National Taxpayers Union (NTU).
"By opening municipal procurement and ensuring that more competitive bidding is
tied to federal funds for underground infrastructure, the U.S. will save
hundreds of billions of dollars in the short term," wrote Bruce Hollands,
Executive Director of the Uni-Bell PVC Pipe Association and the author of the
brief. "This would also pave the way to an economy that wastes less energy,
utilities that are more efficient, and pipe networks with much longer life
cycles."
NTU Issue Brief #176, The Underground Infrastructure Crisis: Rebuilding Water
and Sewer Systems without a Flood of Red Ink, reports:
Infrastructure for water, electricity, sewer, and transportation services is
all deteriorating at a rate that will cause all four to need replacement at the
same time. At a minimum, this will cost $6.5 trillion in the next 25 years.
Corrosion of pipes costs water and sewer systems $50.7 billion annually, and 17
percent of all water pumped in the United States is lost to leakage from
corroded pipes.
Federal policy over the past 50 years has encouraged the use of plastic and PVC
piping that reduces corrosion and minimizes transportation, maintenance, and
construction costs to municipalities.
Pending legislation to address infrastructure renewal does not address
corrosion problems or encourage use of more sustainable materials.
"Before simply pouring more dollars into infrastructure, U.S. policymakers must
examine how to better spend the money already set aside for municipal water and
wastewater initiatives," Hollands concluded. "Trillions of dollars could be
saved on future underground infrastructure renewal."
NTU is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization founded in 1969 to work for lower
taxes, smaller government, and economic freedom at all levels. Note: NTU Issue
Brief #176, The Underground Infrastructure Crisis: Rebuilding Water and Sewer
Systems without a Flood of Red Ink, is available in PDF at www.ntu.org.
-30-
Use the link below to forward this message to others.
Tell-a-friend!
If you received this message from a friend, you can sign up for NTU's Taxpayer
Action Center.
If you would like to unsubscribe from NTU's Taxpayer Action Center, or update
your account settings, please click here or respond to this email with "REMOVE"
as the subject line. National Taxpayers Union 108 N. Alfred St. Alexandria, VA
22314
--
This is a Free Speech forum. The owner of this list assumes no responsibility
for the intellectual or emotional maturity of its members. If you do not like
what is being said here, filter it to trash, ignore it or leave. If you leave,
learn how to do this for yourself. If you do not, you will be here forever.
