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.

One, that's exceptional, so it's a bad way to make policy. It's like saying, "Because Theranos, we should end capitalism." Two, Flint's water system ran fine until it was removed from local control and given to ideological white Republicans to run. Since this discussion is about shifting to local control from a state-scale entity, Flint may work better as an example for the change.