Poorer localitities and rural areas would bear the brunt of that
It's no different than funding for roads, schools, or anything else in the common good. If Fairfax County needs a treatment plant expansion, they'd levy a tax and deal with it just fine. But what about any of the small towns in SWVA that barely have a tax base to begin with? They'd just have to live with open sewers like a third world country (ok, hyperbole alert).
And the process for awarding money for those grants isn't as political as you'd think. There is a fixed formula that (I think) comes from Congress dictating the % to each state. Each state submits engineering proposals for the various local projects they need done, they are scored using a common rubric, and funds go to the most deserving.
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