EPA offers 6.5 Billion for Water Infrastructure (in the US)

 President Biden is pumping money into the American economy. 

• Supporting economically stressed communities.
• Protecting water infrastructure against the impacts of climate change.
• Reducing exposure to lead and addressing emerging contaminants.
• Updating aging infrastructure.
• Implementing new or innovative approaches including cybersecurity and green infrastructure.

Cyber and green is our specialty, is it? We could also save the California Delta smelt. 

But I am so old.

On the other hand, the environmental regulation is so heavy that I doubt that they can spend half of the money on significant projects.

A cutting-edge drinking water treatment facility planned for one of the country’s most water-scarce states now appears in danger of being blocked by regulatory requirements.

“Recommended terms for a permit to build Poseidon Water’s controversial desalination plant in Huntington Beach would make it impossible to get financing for the $1.4 billion project, according to the developer,” The Orange County Register reported. For years, leaders of the project have been attempting to get a permit from the local water quality control board. Subsequently, the project would also need permission from a regional board and from the state’s Coastal Commission to go through with actual construction and implementation.

P.S.: The Economist asks: "What impact then would an infrastructure bonanza have, if it makes it through Congress?"  I can answer - for the EPA portion of the spending: None. Tearing up perfectly good lead water distribution pipes and laying instead plastic lines adds nothing to the GDP. It is a hysterical - and wrong - reaction to the Flint racial panic (caused by the lack of buffer in the supply).