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>The high price of keeping New Jersey’s drinking water clean
>The high price of keeping New Jersey’s drinking water clean
For the most part, New Jerseyans hardly give a thought as to the cost of water when they turn on their faucets, fill their bathtubs, or wash their clothes.
That mindset surely will change with the rising cost of upgrading an aging water infrastructure that by some estimates will need investments of $20 billion over the next few decades to continue delivering safe drinking water to residents and businesses in the state.
“The last increment of cheap water is gone,’’ predicted Michael Sgro, vice president of New Jersey American, the state’s largest water company. Sgro was a panelist at a NJ Spotlight Roundtable on New Jersey’s Water Supply in the 21st Century held at Rider University yesterday. (Johnson, NJ Spotlight)
