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During Infrastructure Week, we're highlighting our solution to the nation's most pressing water and wastewater infrastructure needs. Water is the world’s most vital resource. It helps keep life flowing all around us and yet many consumers across the U.S. are still relying on aging systems.
In 2025, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) graded the state of the nation’s drinking water infrastructure a C- and wastewater infrastructure a D+. These grades remain unchanged from 2021 and continue to underscore the underinvestment in drinking water and wastewater infrastructure across the U.S. Our nation’s water systems that were installed in the mid-1900s have exceeded their useful life and need to be improved or replaced to be able to continue providing safe, reliable water and wastewater service for generations to come.
Providing solutions to our nation’s most pressing infrastructure needs
In April 2026, American Water marked 140 years of providing safe, clean, reliable and affordable water and wastewater services to approximately 14 million people across 14 regulated states and 18 military installations. We remain committed to investing in the systems and communities who rely on us every day.
Over the next decade, American Water plans to invest up to $48 billion in infrastructure upgrades and regulated acquisitions, enabling us to strengthen the resiliency of our services to the communities we serve while complying with or surpassing the latest water quality standards.
Learn more about the solutions American Water provides to strengthen our communities’ water and wastewater infrastructure: https://amwater.com/solutions.
Highlighting key infrastructure projects in our state subsidiaries from 2025:
- California American Water began construction on a $5.2 million construction of the Goldside Water Treatment Plant in Oakhurst.
- Illinois American Water invested $12.6 million to upgrade the filter wash residual pump station in its East St. Louis water treatment plant, replacing an aging lift station and boosting system resiliency.
- Indiana American Water invested $50 million for a new state-of-the-art water treatment facility in Seymour.
- Iowa American Water invested over $55 million in 2025, including $10 million renovating the Blue Grass wastewater treatment plant.
- Kentucky American Water invested nearly $72 million in 2025, including allocating nearly $40 million for replacing more than 12 miles of aging or otherwise problematic water mains in Bourbon, Fayette, Owen and Scott counties.
- Maryland American Water invested $3.8 million in water system upgrades throughout its service area in 2025.
- Missouri American Water invested more than $1.1 billion in water and wastewater system upgrades from 2023-2025.
- New Jersey American Water began construction on a state-of-the-art PFAS removal system at the Salem Water Treatment Plant, part of $781 million in 2025 statewide infrastructure upgrades.
- Pennsylvania American Water invested $722 million to strengthen water and wastewater service in 2025, including $6.2 million in water storage tank upgrades.
- Tennessee American Water invested over $5 million to install 7,200 feet of 16-inch pipe to enhance water system reliability and service in the Lookout Valley area, with a portion of the pipeline running beneath the Tennessee River.
- Virginia American Water invested $54.3 million in water and wastewater system upgrades in 2025.
- West Virginia American Water invested more than $112 million in infrastructure upgrades in 2025, including a $490,000 infrastructure upgrade project on 10th Avenue in South Charleston.
Learn more about American Water's state subsidiaries' most recent ASCE Infrastructure Report Cards to date:
- California: https://infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/california/
- Hawaii: https://infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/hawaii/
- Illinois: https://infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/illinois/
- Indiana: https://infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/indiana/
- Iowa: https://infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/iowa/
- Kentucky: https://infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/kentucky/
- Maryland: https://infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/maryland/
- Missouri: https://infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/missouri/
- New Jersey: https://infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/new-jersey/
- Pennsylvania: https://infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/pennsylvania/
- Tennessee: https://infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/tennessee/
- Virginia: https://infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/virginia/
- West Virginia: https://infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/west-virginia/