I mean, pretty much you get a group of people together to buils/maintain/run the infrastructure because it needs done. As for the community upstream, have a nice chat and if that doesn’t work, do violence. The most important part is setting the conditions so that a self-sustaining state or similar such group capable of enacting large-scale coercion or hierarchy is difficult/impossible

Not in any reasonable quantities. Aside from everything you’ve mentioned, water is constantly undergoing a chemical reaction as the H2O splits into H+ and OH- ions, and then those ions recombine to make H2O.