A craving for a vital and soon to be scarce resource. How will be adapt when there are water shortages? Will this be the punishment for wasting and being careless with a precious and life sustaining resource.

“Water, water everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,”

King Tantalus ended up in Tartarus (the deepest portion of the Underworld, reserved for the punishment of evildoers) after he cut up his son Pelops, boiled him, and served him as food when he was invited to dine with the gods.
Tantalus' punishment for his actions (now a proverbial term for "temptation without satisfaction”) was that he was chained in the middle of a sparkling little lake where the water came up almost to his lips. He was always burning with thirst; but whenever he bent down to drink from the lake, the water sank into the ground below him. He was always hungry, and branches loaded with delicious fruits hung just over him. But whenever he raised his hand to grab them, the breeze swung them just out of his reach. Food and drink would forever elude him. In this way, the Greeks thought that Tantalus was to be punished forever because he had betrayed the gods.