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Pretty much.

Lacks the basic infrastructure and logistics? That's a good one. We've known how to make dirty water safe to consume for at least 8,000 years. There's archeological evidence we were turning hippopotamuses into hippopotamus soup that long ago. EDIT: There's also a 5,900 year old beer recipe. It...

My complaint is more of a critique on SciFi in general. If you need a resource rare enough to be worth fighting over water is one of the dumbest ones an author can select.

I always facepalm when a SciFi setting with interstellar (or just interplanetary) space travel claims clean water is a rare and precious resource. Water is literally one of the most abundant chemical compounds in the Universe and one of the easiest to extract from an ore. Seriously, go grab a...