This is any one of hundreds of other cities in the United States, too, where despite a vast infrastructure of sewers, flood protection systems, and more, too much rain in too short a period of time regularly overwhelms sewer systems, floods homes and businesses, fouls waterways, and eventually taints source water supplies.
Antibiotic use in people can be closely monitored through the vast infrastructure of the nation's health care system, but there is no equivalent for animals, making it harder to track use on farms and ranches, said William Flynn, the deputy director for science policy at the F.D.A. Center for Veterinary Medicine.
Although Mr. Obama put no price tag on his plan, he said he would invest record amounts of money in the vast infrastructure program, which also includes work on schools, sewer systems, mass transit, electrical grids, dams and other public utilities.
The entire system covers more than 1 million acres, delivering about 1 billion gallons of water daily through a vast infrastructure of reservoirs, aqueducts, tunnels and pipes to a million residents in Orange, Putnam, Ulster and Westchester counties and 8.6 million New York City residents.
Yet the infrastructure system hasn't adapted.
China must adopt this new approach quickly, before vast infrastructure investment makes the current model irreversible.
Vast infrastructure projects included a new port at Ostia, canals, quays, aqueducts and sewers.
Many member countries are reluctant to finance the vast infrastructure projects that are needed in Central and Eastern Europe.
Liquid biofuels are of particular interest because of the vast infrastructure already in place to use them, especially for transportation.
Then it spread through an urban infrastructure system called airports.
The Chinese became the country's biggest trading partner and invested billions of dollars in vast infrastructure projects.
