Downstream
Physical Infrastructure Deficits
Potholes, water/sewage issues, poor waste management
Infrastructure fails visibly — roads, water, sewage, waste — when maintenance is underfunded and departments don’t coordinate.
What keeps this stuck
- Contract corruption and “pothole economics” (cheap repairs, repeat contracts)
- Departmental silos — dig, patch, dig again
- Unplanned urbanization paving over natural drainage
- Underfunded municipalities with weak revenue bases
- Unsegregated waste outpacing processing capacity
Is this a root problem worth fixing first?
How this connects
Where this problem sits in the causal graph — what feeds it, and what it feeds.
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