"The infrastructure that delivers water to the nation's cities is badly aging and in need of repairs.Next time your water main busts, you can blame it on the people whose bellies bust.
The Environmental Protection Agency says utilities will need to invest more than $277 billion over the next two decades on repairs and improvements to drinking water systems. Water industry engineers put the figure drastically higher, at about $480 billion.
Water utilities, largely managed by city governments, have never faced improvements of this magnitude before. And customers will have to bear the majority of the cost through rate increases, according to the American Water Works Association, an industry group.
Engineers say this is a crucial era for the nation's water systems, especially in older cities like New York, where some pipes and tunnels were built in the 1800s and are now nearing the end of their life expectancies."
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
US Water Pipelines Are Breaking
Another thing breaking as breaking waistlines break the sick care and other banks.
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