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From about 5 minutes of digging, I found the below which perhaps helps to put the 29m gallons in context.

The Fayette County Water System has a total production capacity of 22.8 million gallons per day (MGD).

Source: hhttps://fayettega.org/doing-business/global-access-infrastru...

So...keeping things simple and using months of 30 days:

Using 29M gallons over 15 months = 29,000,000 / (15 * 30) = 64,444 gallons per day avg

Based on 22.8m daily production capacity that's less than 0.3% of the total production capacity per day.

(Happy to be corrected if my napkin maths is wrong / i'm missing something here!)

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