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by markdown 23 days ago
Thanks. The dirty water is temporary, if by temporary you mean months. Do you think that disrupting water supply for more than a few hours is acceptable?

In any case, why are you defending the giant corporation doing this?

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> In any case, why are you defending the giant corporation doing this?

You are just not getting it. When they add new pipes, or attach to mains, they interrupt the flow of water. When its turned backed on, the flow of water kicks up the sediment that's already in the pipes. There's probably also a little that comes in from construction. Why people don't know this I have no idea, its happened to me many times in multiple locations. It goes away in a few hours usually. Never seen it last for more than a day.

Construction affecting residents is a normal problem for local government, regulation, and civil law to deal with. Wielding it as a weapon in the moral crusade against the evils of AI is demagoguery.