Correction to: Nature Sustainability https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-01042-z. Published online 9 January 2023.

In the version of this article originally published, a versioning error in the first paragraph led to the omission of a reference crediting the acronym “MAD”. The sentence now reads “This is the case of modular/mobile, adaptive, decentralized/distributed (MAD) water systems (Stoler, J. et al. Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101202 (2022).” The reference is now included in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.