| Water workers — the often-invisible employees who ensure Americans have clean tap water and working sewer systems — are getting harder to come by. Many of the roughly 1.7 million people employed in the water sector have hit or are nearing retirement age, and there aren’t enough younger workers in the pipeline to replace them. Labor shortages like these are just one of the many threats to the US drinking water supply. They’re also one of a number of hiring challenges localities face. Read more from Kendra Pierre-Louis today on CityLab: America’s Next Water Crisis? A Lack of Experienced Workers — Magdalena del Valle The Architects Who Built Miami
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Fiscal hardship gripping poorer provinces is spilling into wealthy regions long considered slowdown-proof. | 
