Infrastructure is the foundation on which our nation's safety, health, and economy rest and operate. They provide services from the individual to the national level. Among the services they provide are the energy we use in our homes (electricity), the water we drink (water and sewage), the transportation that moves us (railways, airports, and seaports), and the communication systems we depend on to communicate. with family and friends, as well as conducting daily affairs (i.e. Internet and telephones). If any of these infrastructures were to be disabled, it could send the affected areas back to the Stone Age; meaning it could affect national security, public health and/or safety; significantly slowing down daily activities. This report will focus on power grids and how their aging may present a national problem in the immediate future. The 2003 Northeast power outage showed how vulnerable our current power grids are and the problems associated with them. Therefore, achieving independence from a single energy source in this aspect must be achieved in the future due to the constraints observed during this period. incident. Traffic lights have become unusable; sewage did not work due to lack of electrical power, food spoiled because there was no refrigeration, people were forced to sleep without air conditioning in extremely high temperatures, and trains powered by electricity found themselves blocked on the railway tracks due to the lack. of power. Correcting the problem is not a solution; we must explore new technologies aimed at providing this service, install them nationally and extend them to our neighboring countries in the North American and South American continent. This type of solution is not... middle of paper......our mind. Retrieved from http://www.infowars.com/21-facts-about-americas-decaying-infrastructure-that-will-blow-your-mind/.Thompson, K. (2013). How to save the power grid. Popular Science.US electric customers now pay 43% more to build and maintain local power grids than in 2002. Meanwhile, tg (March 8, 2013). Bad news: America's power grid is becoming more expensive and less reliable. The Washington Post. United States: The problem of aging infrastructure on inland waterways. (November 7, 2013). Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/stratfor/2013/11/07/united-states-the-problem-of-aging-infrastructure-on-inland-waterways/.White, Adam. (December 30, 2013). Infrastructure Policy: Lessons from American History. Retrieved from http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/infrastructure-policy-lessons-from-american-history.