The electricity and plumbing had long since quit.
That sudden change in plumbing has long been known, but what caused it has never been satisfactorily explained.
I took a love of the land to the Himalayas for a two-year stint with the Peace Corps, living without heat, electricity, and plumbing a long day's hike from the nearest road.
New York City wants to strengthen its hand against recalcitrant landlords by giving itself broad new powers to overhaul entire building systems — like heating, electrical or plumbing — in long-troubled properties, and to force landlords to pay for the work.
The sheer size of this plumbing empire has long caused friction with politicians from other regions, as well as sparked concern among White House budget hawks.
Cataloging the marvelous diversity of goods in the local hardware store, "with its wooden floor scarred by generations of work boots, its endless dusty bins full of mysterious bits and pieces of plumbing," Korda observes "long rows of things more unfamiliar than anything an archaeologist could find in an Egyptian tomb".
The plumber says he doesn't know how long the plumbing will last, or how much it will cost to replace it.
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