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Water is free. What we pay for is it's delivery and it's treatment. I remember learning in elementary school that you're not allowed to charge for water.

• wmf 3y ago
  The article directly contradicts this. Farmers are paying water tax even for their own wells.
  • ninkendo 3y ago
    As they should, because there’s no such thing as “your own well.” A well lets you pump water from a shared aquifer. If 100 parcels of land were on one aquifer and one resident pumped all of it, leaving none for anyone else, it would be a misleading lie to say they were just pumping “their own well.”
  • intrasight 3y ago
    Then farmers aren't purchasing water - they are being taxed.