Our water restriction ended yesterday after one then another 96 inch water main break was finally repaired. Much of our water systen inour county has pipes as old as 200 years to 100 years. We have about 3000 miles of water pipe and an equal amount for sewerage.
The dead and decaying infrastructure in the USA is on life support and is in the phase of patch and repair instead of replacement which is often the case for declining civilizations.

What will happen in the 10 years however will make the infrastructure debate moot. The water itself will become unsafe for drinking from the Catskills to Souhthern Pennsylvania due to the process of fracking. The natural gas extracted is traded for the enitre water shed of the greater Atlantic northeast.

Its a shame really but there is no hope that big gas will be slowed down in the destruction of fresh ground water that currently serves 60 million people. -watch HBO's Gasland.