A drought exposes the assumptions that an ordinary faucet lets us forget.

A tap that always works allows you to stop knowing where water comes from. Drought removes that convenience and exposes the whole set of assumptions underneath it: the supply, the infrastructure, the shared arrangements, the weather. The knowledge was always necessary and the reliability of the system let us set it down.

This is the general shape of infrastructure, including personal infrastructure. Health, income, and the people who hold things together become invisible while they function. It is worth occasionally naming what your ordinary week depends on and would not survive without. You do not need to worry about all of it, but knowing what is holding you up is different from assuming nothing is.