Infrastructure Investment and Jobs
Valerie Nelson Monday, August 1, 2011 at 05:14PM The country is anxious to move beyond the debt ceiling crisis and start implementing strategies for job creation. A prominent idea is "infrastructure investment", both for hiring workers to construct water and sewer systems, roads and bridges, and to lower the costs of doing business in the economy. But how many jobs will actually be created in the conventional approach to big-pipe, big treatment plant water management? One of the most interesting books I've seen in a long time is called "Infrastructure: The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape" by Brian Hayes, which I strongly recommend for summer reading. The last chapter of this book filled with photographs of roads, railroads, bridges and tunnels, aviation, shipping, and waste management (including water and wastewater) offers Hayes's "epiphany". These industrial-scale systems used to be swarming with workers, but are now largely automated and hardly a worker can be found in the postindustrial landscape. But the new integrated and decentralized infrastructure model that works with and mimics nature requires many high and low-skill workers in the design, construction, and ongoing maintenance phases. We know this intuitively. We need to document how this shift in the water management paradigm will generate many more jobs and forcefully enter the jobs debate!
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Beyond the crisis that the world experiences today, we must keep the proper maintenance of infrastructure to avoid too much expense on its repair.
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