Day: September 13, 2016

Did you know the earliest planned piped water distribution systems were installed, not for drinking water, but for firefighting? Today, more than one million miles of drinking water pipes form a distribution web that stretches from across the U.S.

Infrastructure projects in 2016 are not that different from those in the 1800s: Transportation, communication, power utilities, and sewage and drinking water systems. Today, however, these systems are considerably more complex and expensive.