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[SuccessAndBiscuts]

Away off topic we go! This is becoming almost a speciality of mine.

The issue isn't just providing drinking water, its about the environment as a whole, bringing it back to life and a semblance of civilisation. People fight over limited resources unlimited clean water would go a big way to resolving more than a few conflicts that are going on in the wastes, clean the sea water and by extension you start cleaning rivers and the rest of the environment, which would decrease the rate of mutation in wildlife and bring about a kind of stability.

Localised condensation purifiers simply wouldn't put through the sheer volume required to make the change (6 glasses of water against the millions of gallons project purity will supposedly produce). What I am talking about is closer to terraforming than just providing drinking water.

When it comes to life as we know it, water is the most important factor.

If they wanted to help the environment, they could of just activated the GECK, which would have turned the wasteland into a fertile paradise. And from that you could grow seeds and whatnot to expand that paradise. And as the Oasis quest showed, plants can grow using irradiated water.

Plus, Tenpenny Tower had clean water(unless you let the ghouls in), so they somehow have a working water purifier.

Firstly Tenpenny Tower, like Megaton probably has its own purifier but like I've said the use of those is limited.

Secondly regarding the GECK

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Garden_of_Eden_Creation_Kit

there is significant disagreement as to what a GECK actually does

The stories of Fallout Tactics 2 and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel 2 were to revolve around "mutant" GECK units, which had become infected with radioactive pathogens and caused mutant plant and animal life to expand and consume huge swaths of land.

The GECK's seeds and soil supplements date themselves rather quickly, but "...the government subcommittees sponsoring the research and the GECK contractors (Future-Tec) weren't really concerned about that. They were 'relatively certain' the seeds would be viable in a post-nuclear environment. They had done 'thorough tests,' and 'all conclusions point to this as being the best option.' The GECKs are a miracle... a miracle that they work.

Not a reliable way of ensuring future stability by the look of things. A big purifier on the other hand? Much more likely to work. Often the simplest approach is the best. Yes life does grow a within a radioactive area, with a much higher chance of mutation, would you rather a semblance of what the world was or vastly mutated flora and fauna. (Thats before you even consider what a "Mutated GECK" could do.)