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If the water tanker guys are able fulfill the deficiency, then you know that there is enough water. It's only that the waterworks aren't supplying enough so tha
by thisistheend123 6y ago
If the water tanker guys are able fulfill the deficiency, then you know that there is enough water. It's only that the waterworks aren't supplying enough so that people have no choice left but to pay the water tanker guys.
Municipalities in most of Urban India are hand in glove with these water tanker mafias.
Good governance is the answer.
- sumedh 6y agoThe water tanker guys also steal the municipal water supply by giving bribes to some of the officials.
- Scoundreller 6y agoHappens in the west too. No bribes required. There’s already non-secured water everywhere by law: fire hydrants.
- gmadsen 6y agoyou think there is rampant theft of water in the US due to fire hydrants? I have never heard of that, do you have a source?
- riversflow 6y agoYeah I doubt that much water is stolen from hydrants in the US. I have heard of business using it, but as I understood it they are required to get permitting and pay for usage by monitoring their flow, at least in California.
- Scoundreller 6y agoUsually it happens at the geographic fringes of civilization where cisterns/tanks get filled from municipal water supplies. Not people running a hose to their house. But there’s also a lot of truck-delivered water used in construction/dust control. No shortage of reports/charges: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fire+hydrant+water+theft https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fire+hydrant+water+theft
- stefan_ 6y agoCompanies don't need to steal water in the US, they get it for free or subsidized: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/23/pepsi-coke-bottled-water-consumer-reports https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/23/pepsi-coke-b...
- missedthecue 6y agoBecause we haven't commoditized it. People seem to be upset on one hand because we aren't making people buy water, and they turn around and express outrage at the notion that maybe water should be sold.
- ceejayoz 6y ago> If the water tanker guys are able fulfill the deficiency, then you know that there is enough water. Not if they’re taking it from folks who now don’t have enough.
- timeeater 6y ago"Good Goverance" - so, Socialism? Markets work better.
- bollu 6y agoHonest question: how do we know markets work better? Where would I start a quest to read peer-reviewed research of how markets are better than centralized planning in the 21st century, where have powerful computers that are capable of assimilating terabytes of information?
- timeeater 6y agoIt's not just a matter of parsing lots of information, you also have to collect the information, and interpret it correctly. Maybe one day in the future, a real AI will be able to do better than markets (by what metric, though). But not yet. Show me the computer program that knows how to create a pencil? And then a toaster? How does it know how many toasters will be needed? Is a toaster more important than a smart watch? Also, if you have such a Computer program, you could use it to beat the markets. You could use it to compute the perfect prices of futures (because you know the future demand and supply). So I guess there is your answer: if you had such a Computer, you could beat the markets, as long as you don't do that, markets are better.