The liberals I follow are trying to blame all of this on the Republican government at the state level.
It's a very similar situation to Flint MI with white flight over decades leading to major infrastructure problems, specifically water problems, down the road.
It's not really a partisan issue, more it's the fact that it's too easy for cities to fall into this downward spiral of lower services and lower investment.
Toll roads and power lines are paid for with user fees similar to how water and sewer is typically financed. But toll roads and high tension power lines are organized at the regional level typically, not the city or county level. We need to think of water and sewer service more like how we think of toll roads and power lines, and we will see this type of problem less often.

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