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My father worked for the city's utilities and he said they could see when an ad break was during a big TV event because everyone was going to the toilet at the same time. They usually knew when someone had a broken pipe in their cellar before the owner did because of the change in pressure at that location.
No way did the city not know where the water was going.
I hadn't thought of this, but it's definitely a thing. They've been searching for missing pipes here since we got a data center our landlord emails about looking for leaks that don't exist
This is one of those civilization ending things. Use of food and water in Palestine has been pretty awful.
Public utilities is woke socialism.
Certainly they knew, but did the same people who saw that knew it wasn't supposed to be going there? Like you see millions going to a datacenter, but maybe you just assume that's normal and have no idea that they aren't being billed for it?