OPINION: 'Ensuring our core, essential infrastructure is strong enough to support the state's future growth is one of the biggest challenges Utah faces,' writes Jeff Silvestrini.
Sen. Mitt Romney, right, joins Utah water managers and state leaders following a tour of a Central Utah Water Completion Act construction site in South Utah County on Friday, Nov. 12, 2021. The recent infrastructure bill directs $50 million toward this project, which moves water from the Colorado River Basin to Wasatch Front cities.Salt Lake City, Millcreek and communities throughout the Salt Lake Valley are poised forin the coming years and decades.
It might not have been a perfect bill — and it certainly didn’t please everyone on both sides — but the recently passed infrastructure deal will help upgrade, improve and modernize our entire infrastructure to support the growth we are expecting in the future, create and support good-paying jobs for Utahans and all Americans, and increase our economic competitiveness in an increasingly global market.
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