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The article directly contradicts this. Farmers are paying water tax even for their own wells.
by wmf 3y ago
The article directly contradicts this. Farmers are paying water tax even for their own wells.
- ninkendo 3y agoAs 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 agoThen farmers aren't purchasing water - they are being taxed.