A Spring in Every Kitchen

[wtg]

There is so little fresh surface water on Earth that if you collected it all into a ball, it would barely reach across New York City. Running water is a miracle — but the technology that brings it to us and takes the waste away is actually thousands of years old. The only barrier to staying hydrated today is political will.

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-water-system-works?user_id=66c4c06e5d78644b3aab4472

[ShiroKuro]

History suggests that the systems will not be maintained until there are several disasters. But the disasters could be avoided if voters understood the importance of their water supply, and made clean water a priority.

We will probably have to go through the former before we get the latter.