Abstract
The United States has a decentralized water network of nearly 170,000 public drinking water systems, with 54,000 community water systems serving more than 264 million people and the remaining 114,000 noncommunity water systems serving facilities like campgrounds and schools. There are more than 14,700 wastewater treatment facilities and 19,700 sewer collection systems, which are also decentralized. This decentralized system creates a number of stumbling blocks when individual utilities need to conduct benchmarking activities, develop performance measures, standardize data processes, or compare costs in order to determine whether the current infrastructure asset management practices are truly cost‐effective.
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