How do they even manage that, is there no filtration at all for the water supply or have they been pumping dirty water back in - which shouldn’t be allowed even if it was clean.
Not an expert but I believe some municipalities (and some older homes) rely on well water with pretty minimal treatment. This is usually fine because the water moves through the well system so slowly everything naturally filters, but if you suddenly have a data center or fracking system forcing orders of magnitude more water through the ecosystem than was originally designed, those natural filtration systems start to fail catastrophically.
How do they even manage that, is there no filtration at all for the water supply or have they been pumping dirty water back in - which shouldn’t be allowed even if it was clean.
Not an expert but I believe some municipalities (and some older homes) rely on well water with pretty minimal treatment. This is usually fine because the water moves through the well system so slowly everything naturally filters, but if you suddenly have a data center or fracking system forcing orders of magnitude more water through the ecosystem than was originally designed, those natural filtration systems start to fail catastrophically.