Right now, I’m gonna go with decaying infrastructure for $200 Alex.
One thing I have noticed, those places that are built on/by British design tend to have issues when old or overloaded.
Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mumbai.
This isn’t a condemnation of the systems but the lack of repair/modernization in modern society. Keep adding more to the load, until it can’t keep up, then push it harder. Eventually it fails.