Infrastructure for industry took on new importance in 2021. Natural gas, electricity, drinking water and waste removal, often taken for granted, got noticed this year. Unprecedented spring freezes changed the anonymity as vast swaths of the nation went cold and dark.
Even young Arizona, the third-youngest U.S. state, sees its cities replacing century-old pipes under the streets in the original city cores.
“We started investing in the infrastructure of the future about 10 years ago,” said Bill…