{"id":12244,"date":"2012-12-27T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=12244"},"modified":"2012-12-27T09:18:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T15:18:37","slug":"america-can-fix-its-crumbling-water-infrastructure-if-you-help-pay-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/12\/27\/america-can-fix-its-crumbling-water-infrastructure-if-you-help-pay-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"America Can Fix Its Crumbling Water Infrastructure, If You Help Pay For It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12249\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"An sludge pump built in the 1930s still operates at the Konawa, Okla. wastewater treatment plant. \" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/12\/SludgePump.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12249\" title=\"SludgePump\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/12\/SludgePump-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/12\/SludgePump-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/12\/SludgePump-500x410.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/12\/SludgePump-1920x1575.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/12\/SludgePump-150x123.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/12\/SludgePump-620x509.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/12\/SludgePump-1316x1080.jpg 1316w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Logan Layden \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">An sludge pump built in the 1930s is still in use at the Konawa, Okla. wastewater treatment plant.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>New Deal programs in the 1930s and federal construction grants through the &#8217;70s helped build America&#8217;s vast water infrastructure.<\/p><p>Now the rapidly aging treatment plants and pipelines need to be replaced, but the generous programs of the past are long gone. Ratepayers will ultimately have to shoulder a large portion of the $1 trillion burden.<\/p><p>Few communities have more water problems than Konawa, Okla., where, after 80 years, the town&#8217;s pipes finally failed citizens.<\/p><p><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]--><br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12244-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/12\/12-27-BrokenWater-AUDIO.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/12\/12-27-BrokenWater-AUDIO.mp3\">https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/12\/12-27-BrokenWater-AUDIO.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Deal programs in the 1930s and federal construction grants through the &#8217;70s helped build America&#8217;s vast water infrastructure.Now the rapidly aging treatment plants and pipelines need to be replaced, but the generous programs of the past are long gone. Ratepayers will ultimately have to shoulder a large portion of the $1 trillion burden.Few communities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":12249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[491,16],"tags":[444,460,427],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12576,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244\/revisions\/12576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}