We've had so much fun talking about the desperate need to upgrade Atlanta's transportation infrastructure that we almost forgot about the city's ongoing issues with its water and sewer system. Some $480 million is needed to upgrade the city's sewer system, and guess what? The city doesn't have it. So the choice is the extension of a penny sales tax, or a 20% increase in water and sewer rates in the City of Atlanta (already the highest in the U.S.) And denizens of metro suburbs won't be insulated either- the City of Atlanta supplies water to a host of small metro cities and sections of unincorporated Clayton, Dekalb and Fayette counties.
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