Water main breaks raises concerns over infrastructure

Sunday, July 26, 2026

A series of water main breaks across Los Angeles in recent days is raising concerns about the city's aging infrastructure and whether more failures could occur. Crews continued working to repair the massive trunk line that ruptured Thursday in West Hollywood, leaving behind a large sinkhole on Sunset Boulevard. The break is the latest in a string of water main failures that have flooded streets, damaged homes and businesses, closed roadways and disrupted water service. In Studio City, an 8-inch water main failed, flooding a street and temporarily leaving about 60 customers without water while crews completed repairs.

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I think this is indicative of much of American infrastructure. American government is spending an enormous amount of money on interest and entitlements, and the infrastructure is deteriorating rapidly.

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Spending an enormous amount of money on an ineffective military. FTFY

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-07-26 01:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Giving ridiculous tax breaks to billionaires...
You get the idea. You're a ------- clown, you bald midget coward

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-07-26 01:52 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Please don't look at Texas water and power.

Please don't...sorry. Power went out again. But water is back up for now!

#3 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-07-26 02:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Too bad most of MAGA is focused on laying pipe inside little boys and girls to care.

#4 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-07-26 08:15 PM | Reply

Why all the deflection.

The infrastructure in Los Angeles needs to be repaired.

Unfortunately all this city's taxes go to Beverly Hills, Hancock Park, Bel Air and other wealthy neighborhoods.

Most of this city was built in the 40s and 50s and hasn't been upgraded since.

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-26 08:23 PM | Reply

@#5 ... The infrastructure in Los Angeles needs to be repaired. ...

As does the infrastructure of most older American cities.

That infrastructure was designed for an environment and usage scenario that no longer exist.

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-07-26 09:00 PM | Reply

I didn't read the article, nor do I care what OneTrumper thinks about Los Angeles.

But for such a wealthy city, Los Angeles is crumbling.

Los Angeles needs a Mamdani.

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-26 11:33 PM | Reply

As does the infrastructure of most older American cities.

Calgary has had two major water main breaks in the last 18 months.

#8 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-07-26 11:37 PM | Reply

"Calgary has had two major water main breaks in the last 18 months."

Vandals. Calgary is a hotbed of Canadian MAGA wannabes and once hosted the Olympics and we all know that former Olympians are going around making 250 mile gashes in stuff that the MAGAts pretend to fix.

#9 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-07-27 09:50 AM | Reply

-Unfortunately all this city's taxes go to Beverly Hills, Hancock Park, Bel Air and other wealthy neighborhoods.

I have a few questions about that.....and keep in mind, it's a hayseed from Kansas influenced by the MSM my whole life.

How does that work? LA has elections for city/county/state government. Is there some reason why those wealthy enclaves are disproportionately represented in government?

It's a huge population overwhelmingly liberal democrats....how does that result in taxes that flow to the wealthiest neighborhoods?

How do necessary infrastructure projects keep getting kicked down the road?

My assumption is that liberals who run governments and schools have priorities and infrastructure struggles to make the cut year after year.

#10 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-27 10:21 AM | Reply

I'm not sure I can accurately explain how Los Angeles works.

My best summary is it's a city run by a conglomeration.

From the googs:

"In Los Angeles, responsibility for infrastructure is split among the city, Los Angeles County, the State of California, utilities, and other agencies. A deteriorating road, sidewalk, or bridge may not be maintained by the same entity, which can complicate repairs."

This was recently highlighted during the mayoral primaries, where people were trying to explain if Spencer Pratt won, he wouldn't be able to do much because of how this web of government entities functions.

So. Fixing a pipeline would need the cooperation of the city of Los Angeles, the city of West Hollywood, Los Angeles county, the state government and the utility company to accomplish fixing one pipeline that was built around a hundred years ago.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-27 12:32 PM | Reply