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“Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink!” – Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

According to Kris Maher in the Wall Street Journal, roughly 60 million Americans didn’t drink tap water in 2018 and I can predict that number is greater today. The crisis in Flint, Michigan, brought our attention to lead content, a potent neurotoxin, but it is hardly unique.

The problem, which can be solved with infrastructure improvements, is widespread because “We are living on the investments of our great-grandparents.” The technologies we use today were developed and installed afte...