The History Channel has a program they are showing about Americas crumbling infrastructure. I recommend watching if you work with governments, contractors, utilities, manufacturers, transporters, aviation….
Just a few points that caught my attention on the not so obvious environmental exposures due to the Crumbling of America.
- Each year there are 240,000 water main breaks in the United States.
- Cities loose any where from 10 to 40% of their drinking water to leakage. New York City consumes 1,200,000,000 gallons of water a day. Leaks in the Cities water system causes them to loose 30,000,000 to 40,000,000 gallons of water per day. Warwarsing, NY is a community impacted by the city of New York’s water leakage where leaking water from the city’s aqua duct is rising to the surface, causing floods, sink holes, sewer backups, goes through septic fields causing septage migration and much more. Water leakage can create or exacerbate an existing environmental problem. Sewer back ups, vapor intrusion, structural deterioration…. Cities routinely issue water drinking restriction due to water main breaks to protect people from predominately microbes.
- There are 80,000 dams in the United Sates, 14,000 of those dams are classified by the government as unsafe.