The recent series of water main breaks in Atlanta garnered national headlines, particularly after reports emerged that some of the failed pipes were at least 100 years old.
Although the federal government continues to allocate billions in tax dollars for infrastructure improvements, even as the country is $35 trillion in debt, cities continue to have infrastructure failures, such as Atlanta’s water main breaks that brought the city to a crawl for days.
“Water is probably more important than anything to humans,” Nick Klein, vice president of sales and marketing at OEC Group – Midwest Region, told The Center Square. “So I would think with the old pipes — and who knows what’s inside that metal — [that] would be more important than anything else. But it’s not.
“…A lot of these political figures, they want to leave their legacy as opposed to fix something boring like infrastructure,” Klein added. “But it’s not boring, and it’s very expensive.” […]
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