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It loses between 16% and 30% of its treated drinking water — between 3.68 billion and 6.9 billion gallons a year, according to what the city described as a very rough estimate.
Aging infrastructure causes Birmingham Water Works to lose nearly half its water supply, requiring extensive and costly repairs.
A new study of California records shows that Bay Area water providers have been losing about 23 billion gallons of water a year due to aging and broken pipes as the state grapples with an historic ...
There have been a lot of improvements to Jackson’s crumbling infrastructure, but a recent concern is over how much water is lost in the production stage.
Houston lost 30 billion gallons of water to leaks last year and experienced a 3.5-fold increase in its annual spending on pipe repairs.
As repair work continues on a broken water main near UTEP, backing up an already congested Mesa Street, ABC-7 looked into how much water El Paso loses when breaks like that happen. Thousands of ...
As many as a million Massachusetts residents across the state were sent letters this month, warning them that the water pipes that service their homes could have lead in them. It’s the ultimate ...
The Legacy Plumbing website notes, “The principle behind leaving faucets dripping is that it constantly replaces the cold, near-freezing water in the most vulnerable pipes with fresh, warm water ...
The city’s effort to remove lead pipes shows what’s possible with funding and political will. But along with relief, residents express distrust and exhaustion from years of crisis.
The attorney general's office has repeatedly tried to convince judges that a landmark decision last summer from the Michigan Supreme Court didn't actually doom the Flint water prosecution.
Click here for more details. Beyond issues with bursting pipes, infrastructure repairs would also likely address the system's loss of nearly half the water leaving city treatment through various ...
SAN JOSE — A new study of California records shows that Bay Area water providers have been losing about 23 billion gallons of water a year due to aging and broken pipes as the state grapples ...