> concrete can handle water just fine if... Concrete itself doesn't handle the water, it's being protected. With quite brittle technology. In the long term the

> concrete can handle water just fine if... Concrete itself doesn't handle the water, it's being protected. With quite brittle technology. In the long term these kind of ifs don't tend to work. You want to minimize the number of ifs if you want to build something that stays put for a long time.