Well, I wouldn't say that things need to come to purchasing water with crypto because the mainstream adoption will be much greater if banks get approval to be a Bitcoin custodian, fair value accounting, and if the spot Bitcoin ETF is approved. This is the most valuable thing Bitcoin will ever get because BlackRock revised their ETF application, so big banks such as JPMorgan, and Goldman Sachs may now accumulate Bitcoin (if the ETF is approved) and have Bitcoin on their balance sheet.
If we tap into "buying water with crypto," it's already in place in third countries such as more than half of Africa, Latin America, etc. They are already using the Lightning Network (LN) to purchase goods and services. Even a chicken from the neighbor can be bought with LN. That is why you also see growing crypto payments in Africa, and a lot of countries there don't have a good internet connection like we do here in the EU or the USA, etc. So, this is not even a problem because nowadays applications can be used for crypto payments without an internet connection.