If you Google the search term “water main break,” you get close to 6 million hits.

In the Washington D.C. area, the suburb of Potomac is dealing with a huge water main break that has spewed water 50 feet in the air.

That is nothing compared to the water main break in Boston last month, which nearly created a panic for Red Sox fans everywhere.

Philly had a bad water main break, as did Los Angeles, Detroit, Muncie, Richmond, Hackensack, Atlanta, Cleveland, Stamford, and Pittsburgh.  Odds are that a water main broke at a town near you.

Water is one of those things that we all need to survive.

Earth is about 75 percent water and muscles in the human body have about the same percentage, so without water, we are basically screwed.

Delivering water is an essential government responsibility.  Governments that don’t come up with an effective water allocation plan are completely useless and tend to collapse quickly.

When a water main breaks, it puts a tremendous strain on local governments, especially these days when most of them are going broke anyway.  Read more...