The next infrastructure wave isn’t roads, it’s treatment plants

Extreme weather is stress-testing systems built for a different era. Recent studies outline separate billion-dollar U.S. weather and climate disasters in 2024 alone, with total damages near $182.7 billion. These back-to-back events have turned nuisance overflows into public health and regulatory crises. The result is a nationwide surge of wastewater plant expansions, sewer separation work, and advanced treatment upgrades, because communities can’t permit, grow, or stay compliant on yesterday’s pipes.