[bequanna]

I do know that funding and managing local services like water, sewer, schools, police, fire dept., etc. is the responsibility of the local municipalities.

If you want to argue something else then please explain why local gov't even exists in the first place.

This is a primarily a failure of local government likely due to weak/inept leadership. Just because something like fixing your water supply is politically difficult or expensive doesn't mean you can ignore it.

[greenie_beans]

nobody is ignoring it. please take the time to learn about this situation before making generalizations.

[bequanna]

The situation seems to be: inept local govt refused to pay for services they are responsible for providing because they didn’t want to raise taxes.

So, they begged for outside money (again, for something that is their responsibility) and when that didn’t work stuck by their “do nothing and blame the state” strategy which ultimately created a humanitarian crisis that leaves federal taxpayers on the hook.

Did I miss anything?

[greenie_beans]

here's one example where they've been trying for at least a decade: https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2013/dec/11/whats-boil...

[greenie_beans]

yeah, you missed pretty much everything.