The pipe was available in storage from San Diego, that is why. Faster than building it.

true.

It doesn't take as much water as North Americans consume to ensure their welfare. You're only arguing money versus some inconvenience which many people already suffered even in North America. You're just acting like a spoiled child.

@@johnwang9914The spoiled child is the one who thinks a silly event should keep going while the people aren’t allowed to do basic things.

@@JesusIsGoodTruth Again, just like a spoiled child. You can still do whatever you would like, it's just that if your district reservoirs drops too low, there won't be enough pressure to ensure potable water. Really, you are acting like a spoiled child.

@@johnwang9914 You failed to comprehend my comment. Try again

My head is spinning! Our city is in emergency state and still will be when Stampede starts. We are not showering, doing laundry etc. but we will welcome thousands of people and animals to share our depleted water?? How about getting us out of this crazy situation first and then throw the party.

@@karinasemeniuk5908 This proves they've been lying.

I mentioned this yesterday this is all a farse. I refuse to follow the restrictions and should you do the same.

​@karinasemeniuk5908 My thoughts exactly! I am more than willing to do my part so all of Calgary can have access to water. However, it's hard when the city is constantly telling us to do more, then turn around and say that over 138,000 people plus thousands of livestock are coming for stampede! On one hand we don't have enough for those of us here but we do for have enough for all the visitors? It's okay though because they won't be washing the seats as much! Definitely makes it harder to take the situation seriously.

Gotta pay for the repairs somehow

Because the pipes are buried and filled with fast moving pressurized water. It's only because the pipes are drained with a segment cut out that a detail survey could be done by robots within 200 metres of the segment cut out which found the five deformations of the inner metal sleeve, the actual failure is in the tension cables that are in the concrete around that inner sleeve which holds the actual pressure which were shown as exposed on the segments cut out. They reported another 300 metres surveyed where they did not find any such flaws which suggests the problems might be localized (perhaps chemicals having been leaked into the soil and hence degrading the concrete). If you dig further and there are plenty of interviews with civil engineers on this to do so, you will find that this pipeline construction was only during the 70's and 80's and was abandoned due to higher than expected catastrophic ruptured and Calgary was actually a leading city in replacing such pipes before the expected end of life. Now, they did mention regularly inspecting the pipe with acoustic sensors and having wrapped the weak points found by excavations and wrapping the pipe with additional tensile material but they also said this break and the five other weak points were not flaws that had been detected or mitigated. Perhaps the inspection and maintenance schedule defined fifty years ago should be updated with more modern methods but really, the inspections and repairs scheduled was being done and the pipe was scheduled for earlier than designed replacement because the technology was not as reliable as was hoped fifty years ago. The earlier replacement schedule of such pipes in Calgary might be why the early public announcements by Gondeck said it had a 75 year life cycle while later announcements corrected this to 100 year life expectancies.

I believe she was greeting in indigenous languages

It's one of the indigenous languages for I'm thirsty!

@@charlesward9486 LOLOLOL!!! Good one!

Because of the amount of people animals and fire risk due to the wood chips that sometimes need to be watered for saw dust with is ver flammable

Only fools follow the city's guidelines about water use! There's nothing they can do if you want to shower or bathe or do as much laundry as you want!

You mean the toxic industry that produced the device you are typing idiotic comments on?