America’s $400 billion leaking problem
- From: Vol 5, Issue 7 (July 2004)
- Category: General
- Region: Americas
- Country: United States
- Related Companies: Carylon, Holloman, Insituform, Jeyapalan & Associates, Spiniello Companies, Standard & Poor’s and Underground Solutions
America’s water and wastewater pipes are growing old expensively. How are the technology companies capitalising on this market?
It is the perfect storm of infrastructure. Old water and wastewater pipes, made to last two lifetimes, are two lifetimes old. Pipes laid 100 years ago were built to last a century and post WWII pipes have a design life of 75 years. A rare convergence of events – all the bills are coming due at the same time.
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