The last tranche of investment in clean water infrastructure was some $35 billion. Cost of an F-22, from development all the way to production, over the course of 20+ years, is about 350 million per unit.

So for slightly over half of all F-22s in the USAF, you could get a one (1) time investment of insufficient size and scale of the kind we had during the Biden years.

Where that leaves the number for a successful investment in clean water is probably quick gruesome.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair enough, but I'm curious about your numbers for clean water to every home and business. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't the majority of tap water in the country already safe? New York City has some of the cleanest trap water in the world.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

https://www.epa.gov/infrastructure/water-infrastructure-investments

Despite that massive investment, we still have, and are projected to remain having, problems in many parts of the country supplying clean water to marginalized communities. Plumbing ain't cheap.

Forgive me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the majority of tap water in the country already safe?

Yep. Which goes to show just how expensive uprooting and replacing the remainder is - not to mention maintaining the existing infrastructure.