No, shopping is not a problem when you live in Birmingham, Alabama.
Alabama's water area is 1,675.01 square miles.
So long as the water is kept up to the filtration system there is no problem with doing this.
Lake Guntersville in North Alabama is the largest body of water covering about 110 square miles
mobile bay
It is the Gulf of Mexico.
In Attalla, Alabama it is about $0.88 per 100 gallons.
You are not specific about the 'water problem' you have in mind. However, every Antarctic base has this water problem: there is no liquid water on the continent.
The Gulf of Mexico.
Georgia
South from Alabama there is the Gulf of Mexico then the Caribbien Sea and then the Northern Atlantic Ocean
9 miles