The water is up to 10,000 years old and cleaner to drink than many modern sources.I'm sure, as we speak, a group of muzzies somewhere is brainstorming plans for ruining the drinkability of this water.
Why?
Don't ask why.
Muzzies be muzzies and hate all things.
The greater likelihood is that a corporation will gain control of this aquifer and use it for some frivolous purpose like transporting coal slurry in the desert, to save a couple of bucks per ton over shipping it by truck or rail. A few years back, a coal company did this in Arizona, and depleted the aquifer that the Hopi had been relying upon for millenia for their water. Now their life is much more uncertain, but some coal barons have more money in their pockets.