There is no need to imagine that. It depends on the country, and your insurance. I've experienced it, not personally, because no need so far (phew!). But when I grew up that was free, for all. Like glasses, too.

Still don't really care, because now it would be covered by my private insurance. If not they'd get sued into oblivion really fast, even if I would be incapacitated somehow.

Interesting. First time I've heard of this outside the UK. In my local area, there's a near total moratorium on new-builds. The reasons are complex, but it's a mixture of agriculture having poisoned all the rivers, housing which is not connected to mains waste water (and people just not maintaining their private waste water systems, which are often just tanks of excrement mixed with chemicals, overflowing into nature) and, even if houses connected to mains, those constantly overflow into storm drains and make the rivers and coasts dangerous to swim in. All of that while it's completely clear that if we need one thing, it's more housing. Quite a predicament we find ourselves in.

Even a single seed did the job per that study.

Only problem was that watermelon didn’t hit the European side of the empire until the endish

A city which had shared toilet sponges would be known for being stinky by lots of authors.