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In Erj’s cities—most often located as they are next to the sea—water is not difficult to come by, and modern filtration methods allow a timely and almost unlimited source of clean fresh water. The open Waste is another matter.
Rainfall in the Western Waste occurs a precious few times a year, and must usually itself be filtered before consumption. For the rest of the year, those living inland must either filter their water from the muck and silt of mires—an exhausting and costly endeavour—or rely on the fortune of passing water merchants whose tanker trucks, filled with hundreds of gallons of usable water, are guarded by hired mercenaries to deflect ambushes by thirsty brigands.