That is one of my all time favorite phrases. But all that aside, here in the US, as I may have mentioned, our civic infrastructure is crumbling, rusting, shifting, and generally causing trouble. Municipal water systems, for the most part installed early in the 20th century, at least in older cities and towns, are beginning to break down. As boring as that sounds, the impact can be quite dramatic. Sinkholes are swallowing cars hole, suspected in dissapearances of children, and generally messing up daily life.
"Local and state officials across the country say thousands of miles of century-old underground water and sewer lines are springing leaks, eroding and — in extreme cases — causing the ground above them to collapse. Though there is no master tally of sinkholes, there is consensus among civil engineers and water experts that things are getting worse.
The Environmental Protection Agency has projected that unless cities invest more to repair and replace their water and sewer systems, nearly half of the water system pipes in the United States will be in poor, very poor or “life elapsed” status by 2020. " LINK
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