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> it gives the utility more money to spend on drawing more water and improve infrastructure. Deeply unserious, gradeschool-level economics. “Infrastructure” is
by relaxing 11mo ago
> it gives the utility more money to spend on drawing more water and improve infrastructure.
Deeply unserious, gradeschool-level economics. “Infrastructure” isn’t a marginal cost you can smoothly ramp up when a big new consumer comes online.
- andymasley 11mo agoWhy then is there a general negative correlation between the cost of potable water and the population of an area in places where freshwater is plentiful? There's a lot of literature on water economics and this pattern usually holds.
- relaxing 11mo agoBecause that’s looking at the macro level when the problems are occurring at the micro level. Or more generally, what you said has nothing to do with it.