Comment by autoexec

> Every single house in the modern world has running water...reflects how thoroughly we've solved all the actually hard problems of water infrastructure.

It's worth pointing out that even in the US, the richest nation on Earth, millions of Americans don't have access to clean, safe. drinkable water. We still have a lot of hard problems in water infrastructure that need to be solved. It's not only problems in the engineering of those systems, but also in the management of those systems as much of our existing infrastructure is both inadequate in terms of meeting our current and projected needs and literally falling apart and at risk of failure.

We're way ahead of Rome in a ton of areas, but we're still nowhere near where should be. Look at our grades:

Dams: D

Drinking water: C-

Inland waterways: D+

Levees: D

Stormwater: D

Wastewater: D+

https://infrastructurereportcard.org/infrastructure-categori...