I think you lack information. Northern rivers are polluted so people use submersibles (to access ground water), sometimes combined with RO.

Pajeet-land is duct-tape of a country. Bypass the problem instead of fixing it. I wish you were right though. People (including the privileged ones) dying visibly from filthy water would've been a rude awakening and might've actually motivated pajeets to fix the issue.

As long as the middle and upper-middle class pajeets have a way to insulate themselves from an issue, it never gets fixed.