As long as there is no centralized, or series of centralized, larger treatment facilities with a network of pipelines to deliver to multiple communities, this will continue to happen.

Yes, pipelines. Please don't faint. A few master water delivery pipelines, a master trunk/ manifold system, with branch pipelines to consumers. Having driven past the Serpent River area many times there is no reason that a pipeline from Sudbury or Sault St Marie could not be built on/near the Trans Canada Highway.

Large scale water treatment facilities have built in redundancies and a solid core of qualified personnel. Delivery is to a series of towers/reservoirs.

Very remote communities will continue to need their own stand alone systems, but a network of water pipelines can extend for many hundreds of kilometers.

Centralized delivery is done with electricity. It is done with natural gas. And there is a reason for that.