Texas seems to have a unique ability to address that with these massive cities like Houston.
Where I live, our city sewers, built 1890-1910 are getting 4-5x their design capacity as the outlying suburbs have been paved and populated.
It’s a weird system because the county owns the treatment plants, but the piping is owned by the municipality. Localities (towns or cities) control zoning and approvals in most cases. So an impoverished city bears the burden and local impact of overwhelmed combined sewer flow (and cost for remediation like overflow basins) while the burbs bear little or no cost.
At least in Houston they at least have the ability (if not the will) to control development.
Where I live, our city sewers, built 1890-1910 are getting 4-5x their design capacity as the outlying suburbs have been paved and populated.
It’s a weird system because the county owns the treatment plants, but the piping is owned by the municipality. Localities (towns or cities) control zoning and approvals in most cases. So an impoverished city bears the burden and local impact of overwhelmed combined sewer flow (and cost for remediation like overflow basins) while the burbs bear little or no cost.
At least in Houston they at least have the ability (if not the will) to control development.