Wilmington doesn’t have enough money to maintain its roads and spent decades ignoring the sewer system, but has $60 million for a new convention center.
Durham city council member Diane Catotti is a one-person toilet patrol and encourages people to reuse shower water (before you step in) in the toilet in efforts to cut water usage from 23 million gallons a month to 10 million gallons, but the city loses 50 percent more water than other water systems in the Triangle because of aging infrastructure.
Winston-Salem could be losing as much as 1.2 million gallons a month because of leaks.
They’re called priorities.