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Comment by londons_explore

I can assure you there is plenty of water. There are floods in lots of places every year. The oceans are full of water that for just 5kWh we can desalinate 250 gallons.

The problem is that the water and energy aren't where the users want it to be.

But pipes are relatively cheap - if humanity cared enough, we could build pipes to distribute the plentiful water everywhere.

But it turns out the people without much water tend to be in very poor places and warzones where there isn't much appetite for spending money on pipes.

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