This is just a report on water sanitation. All it says is most people in virginia aren't up to code, and homeless people don't have good access to clean water. I've never experienced any difficulty finding a way to tap into public water no matter matter how far from home I am. And sewage isn't required to be replaced every time the building code changes or every certain time interval, only when someone makes new construction.
Aside from this, water purification is simple and accessible to anyone. A fully effective water filter can be made from bituminous and anthracite coal, sand, plastic, garnet and gravel. Same accessible stuff that's in military water filters. Chlorine and citric acid will neutralize any microbes and the pH. Reverse osmosis is the only part that might seem a little tricky, but guess what? A $50 pool filter has the same RO element and the pump.
You can get water from anywhere. Ponds and lakes are surface representations of the water table (that's how far down you have to go to get water). If you're 25 miles from water, you can take a topographic map, find the water gradient from the difference in elevation between the nearest pools, dig about that far down. As long as it doesn't smell like sulfur, you've got a well. If it does, move about 10 yards and try again.
Simple stuff. Now no one from p99 should ever die of thirst.
This is worse than your Time magazine thing (by the way both things were on both front page covers, if you looked).
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