It won't bankrupt a city, they simply won't do the required infrastructure maintenance. Check out the city of Los Angeles and its water piping system. Under the

It won't bankrupt a city, they simply won't do the required infrastructure maintenance. Check out the city of Los Angeles and its water piping system. Under the current pipe replacement schedule, it would take 100 years to replace pipes that are 100 years old. They instead just fix the pipes as they break. Usually the pipe breaks are small enough where no damage is done, but a few years back a large pipe ruptured and flooded an expensive part of UCLA.