Delivering safe, healthy water has been one of the main functions of government for as long as there have been governments, building aqueducts in Roman times and more recently across the Harlem River. Water is also political, as we have seen from Atlanta to Wisconsin this year. But that hasn't stopped our current governments from letting the infrastructure fall to ruin. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
This blog post provides a look at some of the places where the water infrastructure has been allowed to "fall to ruin" with links to coverage. Not much there, there, other than a summary and quote from the AP story (attributed to the NYT, which isn't , which you might want to read instead--or in addition: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Deteriorating-Water-Pipes.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&oref=slogin . The writer also points to a good NYT piece on the specific woes of the NY aqueduct in a March 2002 piece: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00E3D71739F931A25750C0A9649C8B63&st=cse&sq=delaware+aqueduct&scp=8
