What do Americans unknowingly take for granted?

You're hilariously wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_resource

The water in any seaside region is cheap as hell because it's constantly recycled. It is not finite in any sense, the only cost is the energy used to heat hot water (water distribution is "powered" by gravity).

Do you also believe that paper/wood products come from FINITE rainforests too, and not the renewable tree farms with zero environmental side effects?

California is fucked for water because their infrastructure is laughably shitty for the desert region they've developed. Any other seaside region has water for fractions of fractions of a penny per gallon, and it's that cheap because it's all recycled with negligible overhead.

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