re: TX water company says brown water is "good water"

The mainstream libertarian position isn’t that there wouldn’t be regulatory bodies that offer insight/oversight. It’s that those bodies would be private instead of governmental. Think state Bar associations.

Just off the cuff, I could conceive of competing organizations that, for a fee, would review the plans of any construction project if requested. I could further see a subscription model that would allow you to check anything they had on file. Moving into a new apartment building? Check to see if the plans were ever reviewed. If not, let them know that you aren’t interested unless it gets the stamp of approval. We already all do this when we ask for the CarFacts report when we buy a car. You’ll notice it’s the rare person that brings a magnet to a car dealership these days to check for body work repairs.