Taking a shower, washing our hands and flushing the commode are things we do every day and give little thought to what that means. The water we use for those tasks has to go somewhere, but do we ever really think about what conditions the pipes are in under the ground and if our local government is keeping an eye on things? Few of us do.

We were all reminded earlier this week that there are problems sometimes and that sewer systems here and across the nations are growing very old.