[tomjen3]

The problem here is that there is very little, if anything, as complicated as software. Preventing leaks like in the example is not that difficult -- you put in pipes that can handle a lot more than the required load, because it is unacceptably expensive to have them burst and the better pipes are not that much more expensive (putting them in is).

[jaylevitt]

Nope. I actually live in a luxury high-rise, and while the pipes don't leak, the pressure and temperature is about as bad as the OP describes.

No bidets, though.