Great Lakes Echo (http://greatlakesecho.org/tag/infrastructure/)
With extreme weather across the nation and the failure of water infrastructure systems in Texas, Michigan residents may be wondering if the state is up to dealing with extreme and unexpected weather conditions such as floods and tornadoes.
Local officials predict it’s enough to fund three years worth of work.
This is the second part of a four-part series on Environmental Risk in Michigan: Past, Present and Future.
Players build water systems while challenged by pollution, runaway growth, drought and mismanagement. Designers hope to will improve understanding of and support for a system largely out of sight and taken for granted.
Few people can depict how water gets to the tap and where it goes after it hits the drain, an ignorance that requires a disaster to generate support to upgrade an aging system of pipes and treatment.
President-elect Donald Trump’s call for infrastructure investment could give revamping of critical maritime link a boost.