Water resilience: Closing the funding gap for utilities
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This report details how United States local regulators can reinforce the resilience of utilities. The report highlights funding issues across the private and public water and wastewater sectors. Aging infrastructure and maintenance costs have resulted in higher utility rates for customers which, according to the report, have been unable to close the funding gap.
According to the research, the U.S. water utility sector faced an estimated $110 billion funding gap in 2024 – almost 60% of utilities’ overall spending. The report relates this to investments in aging infrastructure, operating expenses and water-quality regulations. The report predicts this gap could increase to approximately $194 billion by 2030.
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Themes
Critical infrastructure
Water
Country and region
United States of America
Number of pages
29 p.
Publication year
2025