Since they don’t know what the earthquake will do, earthquake proofing their water pipes is unlikely to be effective.
Will they care after all their buildings have fallen down?
Here in the desert, we get an L.A. TV channel...and about once a week there’s a helicopter covering another water main break there.
High-impact water bottles—that’s the ticket.
If the survivors have no drinking water or there is no water to put out fires? Yeah I think they will care, the question should be, why the hell did they wait so long to start replacing a hundred old plus infrastructure? That is what an investigation should held into. The DWP, as I recall was build huge surpluses and increasing rates for decades, all the while knowing the system failures that were approaching. But I guess it's okay for the government to waste a life giving resource.
“Since they don’t know what the earthquake will do, earthquake proofing their water pipes is unlikely to be effective.”
Quite true. We suffered earthquake damage to a building we own in Napa, CA as a consequence of the earthquake last September. A number of the buildings that suffered major damage had been “earthquake retrofits”done to protect them. The problem with earthquakes is that no one earthquake is the same as all the rest in terms of the way it moves. So they can make improvements, but they cannot make anything “earthquake proof.”