alt Hacker NewsI will repeat a comment from below. There are over 150k water utilities alone in the US.
Passing the buck to the Federal Government is not understanding the problem.
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throwaway894345 • yesterday at 11:48 PM
There are 150 million taxpayers and the federal government regulates all of them. I don’t see why they can’t audit 0.1% of that. If there are 150,000 utilities then absent some regulation, some of them will fuck up. If we want fewer fuckups, you need regulation.
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Usually these commenters are not from the US but get energized by US topics and misunderstand scale of things. E.g., they come from countries with a single nationalized entity for many things.