EPA gives Flint $100M to help repair pipes
This is a disaster happening all over the country. The EPA estimates we will need $385 billion by 2030 to modernize water infrastructure.Putting municipalities in charge of utilities is basically a failed model. Municipalities are too small a unit to be able to effectively take on the long term obligations that come along with infrastructure like this, or cross subsidize from richer residents to poorer ones. Even major cities like Chicago are poisoning their kids (to a lesser degree) due to inability to properly maintain infrastructure.