The South Texas city is the latest to grapple with aging water infrastructure, which officials suggested could have been the cause for the E. coli outbreak.
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Now officials in this South Texas city are scrambling to repair old water pipes that could have been at the center of the crisis. Laredo is the latest Texas city to grapple with outdated water infrastructure and it is one of the most populous cities to issue a boil-water notice sincethe West Texas city of Odessa had to shut its entire water system off
The mayor wants the City Council to divert all available resources to deal with the water crisis, requesting that all non-essential projects be paused or eliminated so that funds could be diverted to replace outdated water pipes. The interim executive director would also serve as a performance consultant, Neeb said, explaining the department has been shorthanded on engineers, relying on outside firms to help them.
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