Indeed. Public trust is an important shared resouce, and like any other shared resouce vulnerable to people who want to asset-strip it for a profit. People forget that in the West the level of general trust we enjoy is high, took a long time to build, and requires continuous engagement to maintain.<p>That&#x27;s why incidents like Flint, MI need to be addressed with a national response, or in a few decades people will be struggling to work out where to get safe water in the US.