Report: U.S. water systems are consolidating slower than needed

A recent report from the Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, says the consolidation of water systems in the United States is happening at an extremely slow pace. While stronger state policies on consolidation are already coming on line, the EPA should prioritize a new policy to incentivize more progress, the report says. 

Consolidation and sharing services is regarded as a beneficial strategy to improve public health, seeing as how thousands of small utilities across America can struggle to maintain infrastructure, finances and drinking water treatment standards.