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America’s Failing Water Infrastructure - If You Don’t Know, Now You Know

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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America's Water Pipes Are Failing

In at least 500 and forty five municipalities across the country, there are cast iron pipes that are now more than 100 years old. The aging infra structure has led to a point where a water main breaks somewhere in this country every two minutes. A pipe that gets an f is just a puddle of water. And it's not surprising that these pipes are falling apart because some of them have been around since the nineteenth century. Here we've let our water system just to rapidate to the point of collapse. Its or third world country. Go east, andin places like north carolina, water has contaminated by coal ash. Go west, its nitrates from fertilizers slowly of blue

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