So this kind of thing is already being counted as "emergency government help".
Keep in mind that last April the government owned monopoly lost 60% of its water due to leaks and thefts, and most of what made it to people routinely failed drinking-water safety tests. Or that the authority had $2.2 billion in outstanding bonds for water- and sewage-treatment facility upgrades to get to that awesome level of service. This was, of course, pre-Maria. So, yeah, the government there spent a lot of money and a lot of officials and their relatives probably got nice personal bank accounts as a result. But hey, 99.5% of the population had drinking water--although enough drinking water was pumped to service a population more than twice the size. In other words, for every gallon accounted for 1.5 gallons vanished. (US average for this, according to barely trustworthy Internet sources is 12%, not 60%.)
There's no reason to even begin to suspect that the kind of corruption and incompetence that led to that state of affairs was sucked out of PR when Maria's eye passed over it. In fact, given how fiscal control systems were probably trashed, one could reasonably suspect them to have increased.
As a result, people suffered and suffer from tainted water. Both post-Maria, as well as pre-Maria.
https://www.nrdc.org/resources/threats-tap-drinking-water-violations-puerto-rico ... And you know, pretty much nobody cared. Why? Because who was to blame? All the people we don't want to. In the game of us vs them being played out last spring, "them" was Trump et al. and "us" had us on the side of PR.
"Rebuilding" up to those standards should be easy and cheap, and the water authorities in Dorado in that report were ironically close to those standards. That's not what's necessary. At the same time, terming the building out of their infrastructure for the first time "emergency rebuilding aid" is disingenuous.
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