"Aging sewer lines could create disruptions across US; Bringing systems up to date likely to cost billions" by Ashley Halsey III | The Washington Post, January 08, 2012
Rapidly deteriorating roads and bridges could stifle America’s economy and turn transportation headaches into nightmares, but if the nation’s water and sewer systems begin to fail, life as we know it will, too.
Without an ample supply of water, people don’t drink, toilets don’t flush, factories don’t operate, offices shut down, and fires go unchecked. When sewage systems fail, cities can’t function, and epidemics break out.
Translation: America and its once-great living standards will be reduced to a THIRD-WORLD NATION akin to areas of Africa or Palestine.
Not that the ELITES and their puppet politician managers will have to worry; I'm sure the BUFFETS will be filled with GOOD FOOD and DRINK, and that ALL the AMENITIES will be FULLY FUNCTIONAL!!
“All the big cities have these problems, and to me it’s the unseen catastrophe,’’ said George Hawkins, general manager of the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority. “At least with bridges or a road, people have some idea of what it is because they drive on them and see them. “
And just like roads and bridges, the vast majority of the country’s water systems are in urgent need of repair and replacement. At a recent Senate hearing, it was estimated that, on average, 25 percent of drinking water leaks from water system pipes before reaching the faucet. The same committee was told it will take $335 billion to resurrect water systems and $300 billion to fix sewer systems.
Yeah, too bad your government that cares so much about you threw the money away on wars, Wall Street, and themselves, American citizens, and borrowed the nation into oblivion.
The gargantuan numbers tossed around during December’s Senate hearing as the cost of saving the country’s water and sewage systems have no more promise of connecting with the public than has the $7 trillion that transportation experts say should be spent to resurrect roads, bridges, aviation, and transit in the next decade.
And all that money wasted over the last decade -- and continuing to be wasted on the altar of lies, be it tyranny at home or more wars abroad -- Americans.
The leaders that love you so much neglected you and let your world fall to shit; hell, they are ENTHUSIASTICALLY HELPING IT ALONG!!
About $9.4 billion more per year is needed for water and sewer work between now and 2020, according to a study released last month by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Without that investment, many Americans should prepare for regular disruption of water service and a jump in contamination caused by sewage bacteria, the study said.
Oh, I just thought that was something you should know.
The price of water, always far below such commodities as electricity and gasoline, can be expected to rise dramatically as the demand taxes the systems that deliver it, analysts said....
It's AmeriKa now: PAY MORE for LESS!!!
“People count on turning on the faucet and having clean water come out,’’ said Senator Benjamin Cardin, a Maryland Democrat and chairman of the subcommittee on water. “Our nation’s water infrastructure is reaching a tipping point.’’
I don't look at it that way anymore. Even when I turn it on I see chemicals, poisons, or drugs in there. But global warming(?) is the real problem, blah, blah, blah.
But with the economy sputtering and Congress eager to slash a burgeoning deficit, selling Americans on the need to pay billions more in water bills or taxes to salvage a system they didn’t even know was breaking might be impossible.
“The customer base really doesn’t know,’’ Hawkins said. “Like when I turn on the faucet, what on Earth is needed to deliver that water? It’s like magic. And then it goes down the drain. It’s like magic again.’’
No, it's pipes.
Why is it that leaders, officials, and authorities in AmeriKa are so damn condescending and insulting?
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