Artificial suppression of water prices is equivalent to a direct cash transfer proportional to water usage. The more water you waste, the more money you get. T

Artificial suppression of water prices is equivalent to a direct cash transfer proportional to water usage. The more water you waste, the more money you get. The exact same thing (making the poor able to afford water) could be accomplished much less destructively by making the cash transfer a flat constant (thereby not incentivizing gratuitous water wastage).