Power and water are a physical good that you take delivery on. It’s the same substance delivered to everyone. It doesn’t seem like the best analogy. The meter

Power and water are a physical good that you take delivery on. It’s the same substance delivered to everyone. It doesn’t seem like the best analogy. The meter simply measures how much is delivered to you. Data conversely is specifically information only about you, and often created by you. Owning the rights to your data is very different than managing it, or having it used. It is not impossible to design mechanisms for services to manage your own data and not misuse it. It’s ok if thinking data ownership isn’t important to you - it doesn’t mean it isn’t important or lacks values if you don’t see value in it. For example there would be some who are directly and very gainfully employed in using peoples data and might not want people to own their data. Data ownership isn’t hard, since licensing and drm is possibility for the few and not the many.