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The tap water tasted much more Las Vegas than VA. A bit chemical tasting. Not great, not awful. And 8-oz plastic bottles of water were ubiquitous. I wondered what they do with them all when they're empty...

You are quite right to point up the ownership issue. That's fundamental to the difference in strategy. Here we have resource ownership at a single person's discretion. There they have a long tradition of stewardship and obligation to entire families/tribes/nations.