SUGAR LAND, TEXAS--August 20, 2021--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--However many billions of dollars Uncle Sam might send to water utilities as part of the as-yet-unpassed bipartisan infrastructure bill, it will only be "a drop in the bucket," according to the annual Strategic Directions Water Report, released last week by Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kansas). The nation's water, wastewater and stormwater utilities have an estimated $1.3 trillion backlog of work.