how do they connect new houses to the water and sewage main line?

Question

I would think it would be hard to manage with the flowing water but I never seems like it’s actually turned off.

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Answer 1

There is a process called “Hot tapping”, it uses specialized tools and fixtures to safely and (relatively) easily allow a new connection to be made to a pressurized water pipe. It was recently shown on an episode of This Old House. Sewer pipes aren’t usually under pressure where your home connects; it flows by gravity to a lift station. Here it’s chopped and pumped under pressure toward the sewage treatment plant.