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Clean water. It can be a dirty job. Like when a water-main floods a neighborhood.
Underground water supplies are usually hidden from public view, but there doesn't need to be a rain storm for the streets of Miami Beach to fill up like a muddy drink. It can happen any time there's a plumbing problem. Such as when a water-main bursts.
A water main transports treated water from a central facility to different areas where it is dispersed via smaller transport distribution.
But even mega-pipes bust at times. It's a known occurrence in construction projects.
Plumbing problems can block traffic, keep residents stuck in their homes, spread pollution and potentially disease and cost everybody lots of money to pay companies with cozy contracts coupled to corporate collection plates to fix it.
Yesterday, somehow or other, a water-main for South Beach broke and I found out cause the streets were full of it southeast of the Venetian Causeway.
I don't know what happened to cause this one, but in Miami Beach, construction and flood mitigation are a constant companion in the city life today.
I asked around and nobody cared.
When everyday people are nonplussed by the negatives, it doesn't equal out proportionally according to the sum of all the variables.
It's costly to fix and it usually doesn't get reported on. So if a water main cracks and doesn't make the news, do you still get your feet wet?
All throughout Miami Dade, whatever water hits the streets ends up back where it starts. In the ocean.
So if whatever company got the contract to do the work that caused the problem also gets paid to clean it up, then who is who and what is what.
We’ll all find out when the tide rolls in.