Richmond, Va., loses water. Jackson, Miss., loses water service. Water in Flint, Mich., is contaminated with lead.

These water infrastructure failures have made national headlines in recent years, but this is far from the full story. There is a water main break occurring every two minutes somewhere in the U.S.

Lead is a neurotoxin that is especially harmful to children, and every state has some amount of lead pipes delivering water. Worse still, lead has been found in the drinking water in many of the nation’s public schools. There are over a million people in the U.S. who do not have adequate indoor plumbing.........

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