While a review of the literature supports a major revision in the estimate of the municipal infrastructure deficit, we must test these findings with on-the-ground data collected from municipal governments.
In June 2007, FCM engaged Dr. Saeed Mirza to design and oversee a new, targeted survey of municipal infrastructure needs and report on the results. The purpose of this project was to take a statistically significant "snapshot" of infrastructure needs in participating cities and communities, not to exhaustively enumerate infrastructure needs in every municipality.