You can look up flood maps and school ratings. Why not the pipes under your street?

By: Jo McCarran

Outlets: NH Bulletin

Published: July 17, 2026

Words: 682

Last Updated: 3 days, 10 hours ago

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Every two minutes, a water main breaks somewhere in America. You rarely hear about it until it’s your street that floods, your boil-water notice, your brown tap. The system that delivers the most essential thing in your home is also the one you can see the least.

You can pull up a flood map, a school rating, a zoning lookup, a crime heat-map for your block. You cannot easily find out how old the …

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