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From: National Taxpayers Union <n...@ntu.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:12 PM
Subject: Localities Could Save Taxpayers Huge Sums on Underground
Infrastructure
To: tom martz <t.ma...@gmail.com>
<http://www.ntu.org>
*News*
*For Immediate Release Monday, January 18, 2010*
For Further Information, Contact:
Pete Sepp <press...@ntu.org> or Rachael Slobodien <rach...@ntu.org>, (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:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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<http://www.ntu.org/pdf/ntuib176UndergroundInfrastructureCrisis.pdf>
.*
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