It would be a city (call it nooberville JFL) that, for whatever non specified reason, had only one access to one single clean, drinkable water source, that would be freely accessible and ready for every citizen there.
One problem, though... for the medium to long period of time, things would start happening to whoever drank that water.
Firstly, their skin would slowly lose colour and vivity, and would look slightly grayish, more saggy and less young.
Then, their hair would become opaque and lose its colour, then start falling off bit by bit, till they were practically bald.
Eventually, people's vision would become opaque and obliquous, then there hearing capabilities, and so on, so forth. Till an inevitable, preventable death.
But, instead of questioning and demanding answers from the powerful locals (who didnt seem to be suffering from any of it, at all) they just... tagged along. Go along to get along, and all that...
Eventually, they started blaming anything they could possibly think WITHOUT becoming too controversial, of course.
The salt of the earth ones said "People just dont walk anywhere, these days..." "they dont get enough sunlight!!" "If people just got off that damn phone" and just shruged it off...
The more intellectual ones came with their cuckoo shit, such as "the inadequate density of the air that came from the surrounding mountains into the city of nooberville in the last 5 yrs were an anomaly, but nature will come to fix it naturally" type of nonsense only an intellectual can believe in...
And if anyone more suspicious even thought of blaming the water, they were looked at with the most dumbfounded, heinous look ever.
"The water? What, are you nuts?! The water here is probably the best of the country and..." yadda yadda BS.
Eventually, when they were all dead, all the powerful people that were left in the county sold the land of nooberville to a mining company, who earlier had discovered some precious metal beneath it, and moved to miami.
THE END
One problem, though... for the medium to long period of time, things would start happening to whoever drank that water.
Firstly, their skin would slowly lose colour and vivity, and would look slightly grayish, more saggy and less young.
Then, their hair would become opaque and lose its colour, then start falling off bit by bit, till they were practically bald.
Eventually, people's vision would become opaque and obliquous, then there hearing capabilities, and so on, so forth. Till an inevitable, preventable death.
But, instead of questioning and demanding answers from the powerful locals (who didnt seem to be suffering from any of it, at all) they just... tagged along. Go along to get along, and all that...
Eventually, they started blaming anything they could possibly think WITHOUT becoming too controversial, of course.
The salt of the earth ones said "People just dont walk anywhere, these days..." "they dont get enough sunlight!!" "If people just got off that damn phone" and just shruged it off...
The more intellectual ones came with their cuckoo shit, such as "the inadequate density of the air that came from the surrounding mountains into the city of nooberville in the last 5 yrs were an anomaly, but nature will come to fix it naturally" type of nonsense only an intellectual can believe in...
And if anyone more suspicious even thought of blaming the water, they were looked at with the most dumbfounded, heinous look ever.
"The water? What, are you nuts?! The water here is probably the best of the country and..." yadda yadda BS.
Eventually, when they were all dead, all the powerful people that were left in the county sold the land of nooberville to a mining company, who earlier had discovered some precious metal beneath it, and moved to miami.
THE END
