Richmond City Council and administration made no bones about the urgent need to take care of the community’s water infrastructure when asking voters to renew a tax to make improvements. These are among the facts presented... • Water mains continue to break. • More mains likely will break. • Water is being lost to existing breaks that have not yet been identified. • The city’s ability to grow will ground to a halt if water cannot be delivered to expansion areas for housing, businesses and potential light industry. The overwhelming majority of voters believed what city officials said about the need to renew the tax. Richmond voters approved the renewal plan April 5 by a vote of 261 to 96, or 73.11% to 26.89%. But the tax did not get 100% of the vote. Some people will never vote for a tax, even one that in Richmond’s case simply renewed an existing tax. At least a few of those negative votes can be excused for a simple reason that is easy to understand: Some people live from hand…