Earthlike World With Copper-Contaminated Water?

I'm trying to build a semi-plausible world where there is native flora and fauna, but the world is subtly not quite right for human habitation. I thought that having significant amounts of copper in the water would allow for stunning visuals like this:

I'd imagine the trees would evolve to be slightly metallic or petrified, and the fauna would be able to filtrate the copper out of the water to survive. However there's just so much copper in the water and atmosphere (dissolved in the humidity) that it's too expensive for a high tech (but not post-scarcity) society to terraform properly.

Basically I want a world where people can move around but not fully settle. Does this premise pass the versimilitude test?

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