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January 10, 2008
Massachusetts' Aging Water Pipes
According to the advocacy group Clean Water Action, it estimates Massachusetts needs to spend $8 billion over the next two decades to repair or replace drinking water infrastructure, including water mains, storage tanks and treatment plants in the state.
The group is trying to get a bill put though the state legislature to create a drinking water finance commission, which would then have to find a way to fund the project.
Obviously, ignoring this problem will only result in additional pipe breaks. As it stands now, in 2006, water departments across the Massachusetts reported nearly 2,000 leaks that lost more than 250 million gallons of water.
No doubt Massachusetts is not alone with the problem of aging drinking water infrastructure as the whole country should be dealing with a similar situation, as reported by the Associated Press and published by WPRI.com Eyewitness News.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at January 10, 2008 02:14 PM
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