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Incompetence, graft key drivers of water crisis

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“Water bubbles up in streets, pooling in neighbourhoods for weeks or months. Homes burn to the ground if firefighters can’t draw enough water from hydrants. Utility crews struggle to fix broken pipes while water flows through shut-off valves that don’t work.”

This certainly sounds like one of our cities, but it is from an article published a few weeks ago documenting that, across many cities in the United States, more than 60% (many trillions of litres) of the potable water is being lost through

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