Alex Tabarrok has a post explaining that (government) water systems have been bad on lead contamination for a century; it’s not just an isolated problem in Flint.

There’s no way I can talk about this without sounding like a punk, so I simply remind everyone of Bryan Caplan’s EconLog post from 2014 entitled “Why Do Government Enterprises Work So Well?” in which drinking water was one of the counterexamples Bryan offered to Rothbardian cynicism.