1168. Optimize Water Distribution in a Village
https://leetcode.com/problems/optimize-water-distribution-in-a-village
Description
There are n houses in a village. We want to supply water for all the houses by building wells and laying pipes.
For each house i, we can either build a well inside it directly with cost wells[i - 1] (note the -1 due to 0-indexing), or pipe in water from another well to it. The costs to lay pipes between houses are given by the array pipes, where each pipes[j] = [house1j, house2j, costj] represents the cost to connect house1j and house2j together using a pipe. Connections are bidirectional.
Return the minimum total cost to supply water to all houses.
Example 1:

**Input:** n = 3, wells = [1,2,2], pipes = [[1,2,1],[2,3,1]]
**Output:** 3
**Explanation:**
The image shows the costs of connecting houses using pipes.
The best strategy is to build a well in the first house with cost 1 and connect the other houses to it with cost 2 so the total cost is 3.Example 2:
**Input:** n = 2, wells = [1,1], pipes = [[1,2,1]]
**Output:** 2Constraints:
2 <= n <= 104wells.length == n0 <= wells[i] <= 1051 <= pipes.length <= 104pipes[j].length == 31 <= house1j, house2j <= n0 <= costj <= 105house1j != house2j
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