Or just be used by an overreaching town or city! Things like that make me mad, as I would want the idiots to be made to feel the pain. She wanted the court to order him to dismantle his system, and pay them for their stupidity.
How about, the court orders an investigation into any similar situation, where private citizens were successfully bullied and did pay fines, and did under go the costs of removing their own systems. Any such situations become class action lawsuits against the city, and they have to pay twice the totals unlawfully collected, plus all court and legal fees, and any re-installation of any/all removed systems.
Of course, any attempted flexing of municipal muscle, outside their city limits, should involve far harsher penalties and fines.
I grew up in Branch county Michigan. I'll use this as a base point.
Branch county, Michigan is the smallest of Michigan's 83 counties, had a population some years ago of 40,000 folks, and had about ~14 Congressional townships, each of which are 6x6 squares, so something like just over 500 square miles total.
If we assume 1 survivor in 1,000 pre apocalypse population, then in 7dtd terms, Branch county would have 40 survivors, and a large butt-load of Zombies. If we postulate an average of 1 residential POI per 4 folks, and each such with a pair of outdoor trash cans, that would give Branch county 10,000 such residential POI's at the beginning. If we then said that 90% of all residential POI's were toast, that would leave us just 1,000 residential POI's remaining, say 10% of these are basically intact.
That being the case, my little digital dude would have 100 intact residential POI's, that he could use nothing but existing infrastructure/resources, and MacGyver himself many outdoor trash cans to the intact downspouts. Clearly, securing a huge supply of passively gathered murky water, must be plentiful, and not be locked behind any requirements.
If we can all agree that this is so (despite folks that want water to be scarce), then we are left with the fact that, with so many less survivors making use of the resources, the water resources must be in an overabundance.
The laws of supply and demand provide for the proof. Earth isn't somehow lees covered in water, so the supply is constant, and with fare less folks needing it, the demand must therefore be far less.
At this point, all that is left to do is, make purifying murky water have a high (initial) cost, and then allow the books, master chef, and the cooking apparatus control how a player can reduce the cost of producing purified water.
Any thoughts?
