This is the signal the the government no longer serves the people. Delivering water is a basic government function. If they won’t make water a right, expect large numbers of dead.
"basic government functions" and "your rights under the constitution" are apples and oranges.
If government supplied clean water hasn't been considered a right, and there's no change in that now, wouldn't you expect the number of dead in the future from this to be proportionally equal to the number of dead in the past?