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The water that comes out of the fire hydrants is the same water that you are utilizing to drink out of your own faucets in your home. So it is critical that we have the best and optimal water Distribution System that we can tap into. Johnson in the mid1990s, the water system had just about collapsed. The district had just run into some very dire financial circumstances, and, when those kinds of things happen, the very first thing that goes is maintenance of those things that one does not see. Eg...

Man this project is water Tunnel Number 3. We started on this project in 1969. Im a sandhog. Ive been a sandhog for 37 years. Narrator sandhogs are the men of local 147, who work deep below the city. They began building the infrastructure of new york in 1872. From the subways to the sewers, the water tunnels to the highway tunnels, new york city thrives because of their work. Ryan you got one little hole in the ground, and nobody knows were here. See the empire state building, right. Thats 1,000...

The plant is overloaded, and the excess rainwater, mixed with untreated raw sewage, is diverted straight into local waterways, creating a combined sewer overflow, or cso. There are over 700 communities in the United States with combined sewer systems. The other approach was to separate wastewater from stormwater, using two pipe networks. This separate system simply carries the stormwater away from the city. But even separate systems pollute the watershed. In developed areas, concrete and other i...

Buttigieg. Welcome. Good to see you. How you doing . Thank you. The crowd loves you we can see. They loved you in indiana. And loved you in iowa and new hampshire. You ran neck in neck with senator sanders there. He pulled away in nevada. Tomorrow night on the debate stage youll have the chance to stop his momentum. How are you going to do that . By making the case for how we will defeat donald trump. I believe in a politics that brings as many people in as possible. I have believe in calling pe...

Will put their stamp on the 2020 race. First they get to ask the candidates all the questions they want tonight. We have heard from senator sanders who is fresh off the dominant win in nevada. Now lets welcome the south bend, indiana mayor, pete buttigieg. Welcome. Good to see you. Thank you. The crowd loves you we can see. They loved you in indiana. And loved you in iowa and new hampshire. You ran neck in neck with senator sanders there. He pulled away in nevada. Tomorrow night on the debate st...

Million. Nearly 19,000 americans have died in total. Global deaths now surpassing 100,000 with nearly 2 million cases, more than 300,000 people have recovered worldwide. Good morning to you. Im Griff Jenkins in washington with my colleagues, gillian and pete up in new york. Hi, guys. Good morning, griff. How are things in dc, give us the weekly update. The weekly update, they fear a spike here. Theyre urging the mayor to get you to wear masks, to continue the social distancing, much as the rest ...

Florida now has the highest number of jobless claims in the country overtaking california as the jobless claims capital of america. Florida is set to begin reopening on monday which has more to do with the economics than the fact that the state continued to set new daily death toll records last week. Florida is among several states set to either reopen or planning to reopen in the coming days despite still being in the throws of the pandemic. Joining me now from the seasonal opening of the calli...

Far deeper than the subways. Built at the beginning of the 20th century, they are concretelined and bored through solid rock. They could last centuries. But the mechanical equipment within them will not. Engineers in the 1950s discovered rust on the tunnels valves. There were concerns that if they closed the valves for tunnel inspections, they may never open again, leaving new york city without water. So they chose to keep them open. As a result, there has not been significant inspection, mainte...

To do something to it, is very difficult. Narrator two Massive Underground tunnels, called simply tunnel 1 and tunnel 2, provide most of the citys water supply. They run hundreds of feet below manhattan, far deeper than the subways. Built at the beginning of the 20th century, they are concretelined and bored through solid rock. They could last centuries. But the mechanical equipment within them will not. Engineers in the 1950s discovered rust on the tunnels valves. There were concerns that if th...

Narrator stretching more than 60 miles under the city, tunnel 3 is taking generations of workers to complete. Ryan i dont even want to imagine what my father had to go through. When we first started, it was a rough job. Everything was dynamite. Now, they have these machines called moles. Its like a big drill, and it just cuts right through the ground. So theres no more dynamite. And its still a rough job, but its gotten to a point where its a lot safer. In the 70s, we lost a man a mile basically...