[MilStdJunkie]

Unless you can figure out a way to bill fetuses for capital projects, gonna have to go with a "nope!".

I know I'm being a little silly here, but this kind of thing is what you get with under-/post-/non-industrialized populations that crank their GDP from . . somewhere. Classic example are oil states[1], but it goes to some extent for the US as well, where our dominance results from the USD's reserve status[2], rather than any great vitality among the citizenry.

Anyway, when you don't really care about how well the citizens do, then . . why spend money getting them nice water? Especially if you've gone with professional, high tech militaries and all the state surveillance money can buy.

[1] Where the Maximum Leader is genuinely better off without pesky citizens, just (possibly foreign!) wage slaves to mine/pump and a chunk of loyal soldiers.

[2] I also have a personal theory, that started as a joke (and now it's not quite a joke anymore), called "The Blood Standard". How many people can your nation kill in 24 hours? This gives you a baseline for your foreign exchange. UU, Russia, China? They could probably kill a good chunk of the world's cities, so their currencies have a hard floor. Mexico or Brazil? Good frickin' luck.