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Lawns, golf courses and swimming pools consume hundreds of thousands of times more than what people need to live. Heavy users of water currently pay far less t
by wefarrell 7y ago
Lawns, golf courses and swimming pools consume hundreds of thousands of times more than what people need to live.
Heavy users of water currently pay far less than what they should and are receiving taxpayer subsidies.
- goda90 7y agoCouldn't that be solved by pay tiers? If you use 0-X number of gallons, you pay $0.01/gallon, X to Y $0.10/gallon, Y to Z $1/gallon, etc.
- wefarrell 7y agoIf you think that pools and golf courses should only be available to the ultra rich then sure. If agriculture is part of those tiers it would result in a massive increase to the cost of food. I don't think we need to do anything so extreme, just charging by usage will result in regular water users paying less overall, and heavy water users paying more.
- atomi 7y agoThere is also a huge disparity between what agriculture pays and what consumers pay by orders of magnitude here in California. California residential water consumers are pretty much subsidizing a lot of the produce grown, via disproportionate water pricing, for the entire United States.