Yeah, Small cities are quite willing to economize even if it means X risk some attacker will muck with the system. But the thing I'd take issue is the "can't

Yeah, Small cities are quite willing to economize even if it means X risk some attacker will muck with the system. But the thing I'd take issue is the "can't afford it" part. Of course these cities could afford onsite worker. As gp pointed out, these districts operated long before the Internet and they could provide water then. But the neoliberal paradigm has appeared and suddenly the constant claim is no organization "can afford" not to do any given automation measure, no matter how illogical or dangerous. And so a key thing calling organizations on this baloney.