Despite paying regular monthly bills to the island’s water authority, called PRASA, the town has had no running water most of the time since 2017. It once went 42 days without the taps running. PRASA ...

Copper is just below its historic 2024 historic high price of $5.20 per pound. When I soldered my first copper joint in the mid 1970s, copper was selling for 50 cents per pound.

Calumet City expects a loan of $4 million, of which $2 million will be forgiven, to replace 400 lead water lines. The city was awarded $4 million in 2023, with no obligation to repay the IEPA loan ...

Her plumber tried to supply a luxury shower with 1/2-inch diameter PEX hot and cold water lines. Water dribbled from the body sprays when the shower head was turned on. It was a horrible hot mess.