The United States’ drinking water shortage is complex and growing. Potable water, traditionally drawn from surface and ground sources, gives people clean water to drink, cook with, and bathe in.
Of the issues surrounding clean water access, two huge factors at play are droughts and an ever-increasing reliance on shrinking sources. In states surrounded by water, much of the public naively believes that water will always be easily available or that there will always be plenty of water available from other states or other sources to replenish local aquifers.
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