Look, I get the basics of hydrology, climate, and resource distribution. The point of stating the coverage highlights the fact that we have been mismanaged for decades because there is no excuse for the sorry state of our infrastructure in the US, and specifically our water infrastructure. We still use fucking floride and chlorine for water treatment when we should have desalinization plants on the coasts putting salt mines out of business and piping pure fresh water all across the country. Don't let the current dystopian reality obscure the vision of what the world could and should be. At 73% coverage and this far a long in history and technological development, there is no excuse that clean drinking water is not readily available in the driest of deserts. We only have our corruptocrats and our lazy selves to blame for leading us to this precipice. Just like how there are water pipelines running from Lake Mead to CA and AZ, we could have had pipelines sending desalinated water from the Pacific to be stored in these reservoirs. The fact that we are not comes back to corruption and this dystopian society we find ourselves in.

Look, I get the basics of hydrology, climate, and resource distribution. The point of stating the coverage highlights the fact that we have been mismanaged for decades because there is no excuse for the sorry state of our infrastructure in the US, and specifically our water infrastructure. We still use fucking floride and chlorine for water treatment when we should have desalinization plants on the coasts putting salt mines out of business and piping pure fresh water all across the country. Don't let the current dystopian reality obscure the vision of what the world could and should be. At 73% coverage and this far a long in history and technological development, there is no excuse that clean drinking water is not readily available in the driest of deserts. We only have our corruptocrats and our lazy selves to blame for leading us to this precipice. Just like how their are water pipelines running from Lake Mead to CA and AZ, we could have had pipelines sending desalinated water from the Pacific to be stored in these reservoirs. The fact that we are not comes back to corruption and this dystopian society we find ourselves in.