‘There’s no excuse for this’: thousands in Mississippi city still without water weeks after storms

...A 2020 report card published by the American Society of Civil Engineers gave the state a D+ grade, noting decaying systems across roads, energy, solid waste and a host of other essential services. On its drinking water systems, the report noted some were losing as much as 50% of treated water due to breakages and that certain systems were still dependent on pipes laid in the 1920s. "Many of these networks have aged past their useful life span," the report notes...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/04/mississippi-city-without-water-weeks-after-storms