Stop me if you’ve heard this before: A Louisiana city’s water infrastructure failed, leaving residents, businesses and public services with low pressure and unflushable toilets.
This wasn’t in one of the state’s many struggling rural water systems, like Monterey, Tallulah or Killian. It wasn’t in New Orleans, where Sewerage & Water Board struggles are as much a part of the background noise as the sound of the streetcar.
This was in Shreveport, the state’s third-largest city where, last weekend, a 42-inch water main busted. Water pressure throughout the city was affected. Officials scrambled to bring in bottled water and get an emergency fix in place…