OF COURSE it matters.
Look what happened to New Orleans during Katrina. The "locals" failed miserably. Not just during the storm, but in decades of corrupt rule before it.
I’ve read a couple articles that claim that the city is so incompetent they’re not even billing all their water customers someone unknown amount of customers I don’t even get a water bill so they don’t have a steady income to properly budget for maintenance and repairs
The levees that failed were federal structures, and the ACE took responsibility for their faulty design and maintenance.
Los Angeles has a major water leak going on now. So urgent are all the water main breaks that they have not done the repairs necessary for decades.
Officials discovered a leak in the 36-mile Upper Feeder pipeline, which delivers water from the Colorado River to Southern California, earlier this year.
More than 4 million residents in Los Angeles County will be asked to suspend outdoor watering for 15 days next month while the Metropolitan Water District repairs a leak in a water pipeline.
The repairs will take place from Sept. 6 to 20
https://www.dailynews.com/2022/08/15/4-million-la-county-residents-asked-to-not-water-outdoors-for-2-weeks-beginning-sept-6/
4 million LA County residents are being asked to stop watering their lawns for 15 days
https://www.dailynews.com/2022/08/30/metro-water-district-shares-how-it-will-repair-huge-pipe-bringing-water-to-socal-from-colorado-river/
The mayor of Jackson is Looney Tunes.