Unfortunately, You Can’t Get Your Water over WiFi
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Government
A big study was released describing the attention our water infrastructure needs in the next 25 years — and the headline number was that we need to spend $1 trillion on the pipes that bring us drinking water. Now, $1 trillion is serious money. That’s more than the total Defense Department budget — although to be fair, the Pentagon spends $1 trillion in 18 months, and the water pipes need $1 trillion over 300 months. Still: $1 trillion. We need to spend that on water pipes, huh? How many miles of drinking water mains have we got? In the U.S., 1 million miles. That’s 20 times the length of all our interstate highways. Read more: http://j.mp/GCRsYy Photo: covilha via Flickr CC
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