On the recordFebruary 28, 2012
It's a lot of water that's wasted. It is a problem in terms of undermining roads. We've all seen these terrible pictures of sinkholes that develop. I used to keep them and use them for presentations. I stopped when one of the sinkholes was actually in my old neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, that opened up in the middle of the street and swallowed a maintenance truck. This is serious business. The American Society of Civil Engineers, every 5 years, does a report card on the state of American infrastructure. Their most recent report card showed that we have $2.3 trillion unmet need, and the grades ranged from C-minus to an F in terms of water, the electrical grid, transit, roads and bridges. This is serious business in terms of American quality of life. And think about the hundreds of thousands of family-wage jobs if we were investing in rebuilding and renewing America. {time} 1730 I know you appear to have a little statistic here.
