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  • Generally, we just plain don’t have water contamination like that. We have enough enforcement of groundwater protection, enough people that care to avoid contamination in the first place, and enough supply from groundwater or snowmelt that even if one source has minor contamination, we can switch to another until it’s remediated or within safe levels.

    Which is also why we can afford to use potable water for those purposes. There’s enough of it to go around; it’s not precious here.

    Well, except in California and the desert parts of the US, where they’re diverting so much of the Colorado river that the further down the river you go, it gets smaller instead of bigger, until sometimes there’s no river at all.