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Chris Willis's Blog – May 2014 Archive (1)

Rural water conservation soapbox

I come from a rural area where are infrastructures is a generation or two behind what other places 2 counties over have. The part of our infrastructure that affects us the most is water supply. Where some have 42inch mains we at most have 8s and often times all the plugs in a given city are fed by one of those 8 inch mains. In short we have very few hydrants and what hydrants we do have often are very weak, if not broken.

I often hear (as many of you readers likely do as…

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Added by Chris Willis on May 12, 2014 at 11:48am — 2 Comments

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