Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas knows the political heat is much higher than the temperature on the thermometer.

Political types at Calgary city hall are already talking quietly and off the record about a possible shake-up downtown, perhaps starting with city hall No. 1 paper-shuffler David Duckworth.

Farkas won’t wade into those waters. At least not yet.

But the mayor does make clear to this scribbler this water pipe fiasco isn’t just about the pipe explosion this week or the water pipe mess in the summer of 2024.

The sad saga of Calgary’s ever-lousier water pipe system Farkas himself calls a ticking time bomb has a history going back years and it sure looks like there was a dereliction of duty while politicians and highly-paid city hall bigwigs were supposed to be watching out for us.

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