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The Pipe Under Your Street Has a Secret
Aging water infrastructure under your city is running on borrowed time, and you would never know it from your tap. You turn it on, water comes out, and that feels like proof that someone has it handled. But in Calgary this week, the main feeder pipe supplying 60% of the city's water needed emergency shutdown, not for the first time, just to stop it from exploding again.
What does it feel like to know your city expects you to shave three minutes off your shower, buy the low-flow toilet before your old one dies, and track your own water use, while 30% of Canada's water infrastructure sits in…
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