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America’s failing water infrastructure

All over the country, in cities especially, buried water infrastructure — the underground pipes and systems that distribute drinking water and take sewage and stormwater away — is failing. The innumerable effects include poor water quality, contamination of the watershed and the costly impacts of repairing the damage. Experts say water infrastructure has for too long been out of sight, out of mind.

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