Water Taps

These magical water sources looks like a normal industrial water valve, abet made of platinum. They are open on one side and caped on the other. When opened they produce a high pressure stream of pure potable water. They are in size from a six inch main to a full meter across in the case of the Lake Mead Tap. 
The water itself comes from deep over the abyssal plains of the ocean, a mile deep. Only pure water can pass the magical portal. The pressure of the water passes the portal as well.
In use these devices have been either placed in the open in a firm footing of concrete and allowed to blast water into the air and from there in reservoirs as in Lake Mead or Los Angeles. Smaller units are installed in water systems with pressure reducing mechanisms. In general they are painted a bland gray to hide the materials and keep fools from getting killed.
==Events==
*GNOME agents attempt to damage the Lake Mead tap. Their inexperience with explosives and what they were trying to damage thwarted them. 
*Anthony Allion installed the LA taps on the condition the natural hydrology of the area was returned to normal. LA gladly complied for a permanent and steady water supply.
*Sol Green of Los Angeles agitated in the oped columns for a number of years against what he called "Anthropomorphic humidification", and "artificial water" of the LA region as he feared plentiful water would allow people to live normal non-hyper conserving lives. He was right, but no one cares what he thinks.<P>Mr Green was later found in his apartment, moused surrounded by bottled water. He is now more than the totally ignored he was before.
*Taps are offered to midwest farmers if they lay off the fossil water. They do.
*Taps are offered to sub Sahara Africa, hell anyplace that needs water. The world water crisis is ending. No more water in the world, but the right water where it is needed. 
Some people still have a problem with this.
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