A winter storm in Texas this February left residents without water and power for days at a time. Pipes burst across the state. This raised the cost of HDPE and PVC pipes across North America, and is one of the reasons that Iqaluit city council voted unanimously last week to defer a much needed expansion of its main sewer line. The city's sewer system is at capacity. There's a four-phased plan to expand it, and the second phase was set to happen this summer. Every bid the city received to do the expansion was millions of dollars over budget.