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If underground water of that scale that terrifies you, go google "aquifer" some night when you don't want to sleep.

No, this is silly. The amount of water that human beings package for drinking is a tiny fraction of the amount we use for agriculture, which is itself an absolutely miniscule fraction of the amount of fresh water that cycles through the environment constantly (itself, of course, a tiny fraction of the water available in oceans).

Amounts of water aren't the problem. There will always be water. When people complain about water, it's not about how much there is in any one place, it's about flows: how much of this or that river basin or aquifer is being diverted for human use, potentially causing side effects like lake drying or desertification downstream. Those are important effects that need to be managed.

But Dasani bottles in land fills aren't hurting anyone.