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John Whitmire: “When I was sworn in, there were 1900 broken water mains…”

Featuring: John Whitmire, Nonpartisan | Mayor of Houston | Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 14:27

Police, fire, ems. Heck, I'll even go ahead and name public service. You know, we've got to have our city infrastructure working, and we have a lot of work to do. When I was sworn in, there were 1900 broken water mains. We're down to 400 now with the goal to have zero come the first of this year. Problem is, as you fix, some others break. But we got the right public works director, we got a motivated public works staff, so that's moving in the right direction. (14:27–14:37)

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Asserts that the number of broken water mains in Houston has decreased from 1900 to 400.

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