He's not in the US, but in a town of 160K-odd people, with a very decent river running right through. Water is indeed very cheap, but the main thing is that th

He's not in the US, but in a town of 160K-odd people, with a very decent river running right through. Water is indeed very cheap, but the main thing is that there's no metering. Metering is seen by some as taking away their rights, and possibly leading the elderly/poor to skimp on water and thus hygiene - so there is considerable resistance to water metering. It's not a sustainable position though (because of people like him :) and metering must arrive one day.