In California we don't let the political equivalents of script kiddies run our water system because it turns out water is super important in semi-arid climates.

In California we don't let the political equivalents of script kiddies run our water system because it turns out water is super important in semi-arid climates. Too many stakeholders care too much about it. That causes its own problems, but at least we're not letting complete novices decide engineering problems.