We'll be washing our clothes in the river like they do in Indonesia and other countries (hope no one is taking a crap upstream). It's called globalism, where every country wallows in the same misery, worldwide. Something that is being promoted right here at home. Welcome to the 21st century.
The groundwater problem comes solely from mishandling of dry cleaning waste. I thought that was almost completely taken care of by now. Were all dry cleaning to end tomorrow, there would still be an increase in the trichloroethylene in groundwater for quite a while from what was already in sewage systems from years and years ago.
Somebody who comes up with a bacteria that eats this stuff would be rich overnight.
And maybe using the original form of drycleaning-smoking the clothes over a low flame full of herbs and spices and incense and suchlike. Seriously. That's how rich people had their clothes cleaned in elizabethan England : They couldn't wash them because washing them meant having to cut off all the jewels on the garments and then sew them back on . So they "smoked" their clothes to remove odors. I guess for stains they just sewed another gem on over it.