US Authoritarianism

Nowhere.

The water company will do this intentionally when they have water mains to repair. When the street my mother in law lived on had a water main repaired, the water company hooked a hose from her neighbor's house to supply her water. Later they came and hooked her water to the next house down as they worked there way down the street.

But I could still see police doing it because they don't know the law.