Lifting regulatory barriers to help improve water infrastructure

Aging water infrastructure is crumbling in North Carolina and throughout the United States.

As old pipes face replacement in the years ahead, some advocates hope the N.C. General Assembly will step in to prevent local governments from setting overly strict standards. The concern: Local governments are limiting the types of material that can be used for new infrastructure.

Michael Power of the American Chemistry Council explained for the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society how those local standards drive up taxpayer costs unnecessarily.