Business View Magazine | February 2019

By Michael J.Willmets, Executive Director,North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT) the renewal and replacement of aging water and wastewater infrastructure.The report states,“These issues continue to be important because many water and wastewater systems built and financed by previous generations are approaching or have exceeded their useful lives. Because of past budget- ing approaches that may have included inadequate revenues to fully cover costs, some municipal utilities have deferred necessarymaintenance and replacement. Even systems that have acted as good stewards by planning for the renewal or replace- ment of their assets can sometimes find it difficult 201

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