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> A once-in-a-lifetime drought in the western part of the US

Did they mean, a for the rest of your lifetime drought in the western part of the US?

This is where the right to repair bill was killed by a corrupt senate committee [1] as the area ups semiconductor and device manufacture. Reuse and recycling could obviate the unnecessary production of millions of devices that each require hundreds or thousands of litres of water [2][3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31558875

[2] https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-much-water-did-it-take-to-make...

[3] https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/thirsty-business-how-t...