four problems:

1. Quality of the water coming in from whatever source

2. Quality of the treatment of the water coming in from whatever source.

3. Quality of the plumbing/pipes. MANY older cities have lots of lead in all of the pipes leading from the water treatment facility to your house.

4. The mystery that most older cities don't even KNOW what pipes are where and how they were made.

Chickens coming home to roost.

Safe, clean drinking water supply is the number one problem in most of the world.

And now we're an old enough country, with a population unwilling to fix the decaying dangerous infrastructure.

When YOUR bridge goes down, or YOUR water stinks....think of those chickens coming home to roost!

When we lived in a suburb of Boston, the entire problem was addressed, pipes were dug up, things were more or less 'fixed'. Adequately for the time, but perhaps not for the long run.

Comes under the heading: It's always something, and, then, it's something else!

hugs, ElaineD