As New York City endures a historic drought, half of its usual water supply is shut down until June for repairs.
The city Department of Environmental Protection last month began the final phase of a $2 billion project to fix leaks in the world’s longest tunnel: the 85-mile Delaware Aqueduct. The work involves building a 2.5-mile-long bypass tunnel around a decades-old leak under the Hudson River that’s losing 35 million gallons of water per day. As part of the project, the city has temporarily shut down the aqueduct, which provides about half the water supply.
