Sentence examples for decrepit pipes from inspiring English sources

Half the water flowing through their decrepit pipes leaks.

The advertisement, promoting Brita's two-stage water faucet filters on the uptown No. 1 train, depicted a network of decrepit pipes with the warning, "Your tap water has been through a lot".

The bulk of the aid, about $124 million, is earmarked for updating the city's water and sewer systems -- removing decrepit pipes that are in some cases more than 100 years old -- demolishing abandoned structures, acquiring land and cleaning polluted brownfields.

Rather than replacing more than 2,000 miles of decrepit sewer pipes, the county dispensed contracts to build water treatment plants, pumping stations and administrative buildings, some on slag heaps left behind by closed steel mills.

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Additionally, the city's decrepit water pipes, from which the toxic lead was drawn, were themselves casualties of the cash crunch.

Across the country, the potential energy-saving boon of combined heat and power systems, which are common in Russian apartments, is nullified by 200,000 kilometers, or 125,000 miles, of aging heat-supply pipes and decrepit equipment.

But more alarming is confirmation that because nothing was done to address the corrosive nature of the Flint River water – a simple phosphate additive would have done the trick – it instantly began scouring the city's mostly lead-based and decrepit network of service pipes.

But Enbridge's 38-page final reply is as weak as their decrepit 38 year-old pipe whose risk of rupture sits at an alarming 90%.

But behind its marble walls, ancient water pipes often burst, decrepit heaters frequently leak and old electrical circuits periodically fail.

The firm's miles of Victorian pipes are so decrepit that almost a third of the water that flows through them seeps into the ground.