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The moment the water stops, everything else begins to fail. Not gradually, not politely, but all at once in a cascade most people never see coming. It doesn’t start with empty taps—it starts with pressure fluctuations deep inside aging infrastructure, with pumps that rely entirely on uninterrupted electricity, with treatment facilities calibrated for stability suddenly forced into chaos. Within hours of a major grid disruption, the systems that make modern w