Como burst water pipeline leaves damp mark as residents brace to 'rebuild'
ABCWhen a small leak broke out behind Paul Bozonie's suburban home on Friday morning, he thought it was almost amusing. "I came down to check on my grandfather, and there was just water coming in everywhere, downstairs there, and it just kept getting worse from there," he said. University of Sydney engineering professor Stuart Khan said a great deal of Sydney's water infrastructure was built from about 1950 to 2000, and coming "to the end of their life". Earlier this month, Sydney Water asked pricing regulator IPART for approval to increase water levies by 50 per cent by the end of the decade to fund an overhaul of the city's water infrastructure. "To support new and existing Sydney homes and the rapidly expanding population, Sydney Water is looking to invest more than $26 billion to address the growing demands on our water resources and ageing infrastructure over the next five years," a spokesperson said.
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