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The longest tunnel in the world, the Delaware Aqueduct, supplies New York City with drinking water -- and it's leaking. Every 10 minutes or so, the aqueduct will leak at least enough to put a football field under three and a half feet of water. Blueprint America -- with Weekend America on public radio -- correspondent Rick Karr takes a look at the catastrophe that's unfolding several hundred feet underground.
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California began construction on a $250 million reservoir to store water from the Colorado River that, until now, has been flowing down into Mexico.
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President Bush signed into law the rail safety and Amtrak bill.
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As a solution to the economic crisis, the presidential candidates look to the American infrastructure.
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Even before the bailout, a non-partisan initiative, Building America’s Future, had already called for a similar government expansion, but in funding infrastructure projects.
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Already, the financial crisis has affected infrastructure projects throughout America.
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Gov. Ed Rendell (D., PA) is an advocate for reforming infrastructure policy and practice in both his state and throughout the rest of America. In Pennsylvania, Gov. Rendell has proposed varying measures to improve the state’s infrastructure, which rates particularly poor in road and bridge quality, from tolling to privatizing public roads.
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A history of transit in the Los Angeles area as the city modernized at the turn of the 20th Century through today.
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