What does that mean? "this is so deeply embedded in the water supply"
How this expression can be used as an idiom?

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What does that mean? "this is so deeply embedded in the water supply"
How this expression can be used as an idiom?

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"this is so deeply embedded[ stuck into]  in the water supply"
Maybe it refers to pollution in the water.Or there could be something else that is in the water supply.

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a set of societal constructs so deeply embedded in the water supply that we take them for granted.....

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It means exactly what it says. Which part don't you understand? 
You can look up the word "embed".

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Water supply -The source of water provision.  Where the water inquestion comes from.

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"water supply" is it concerns human?

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