When did humans start paying for water? Didn't they go apeshit

>>2541731
So people don't take two hour showers and destroy the ecosystem and facilities.

>>2541731
You are paying to maintain the infrastructure that brings you as much hot and cold water as you want. If no one payed for it, you'd have to go fetch and clean and dispose of your own water.

>>2545005
Don't forget sanitation! Paying like 14 bucks a month for someone to dispose of my literal shit is a pretty good service imo.

>>2541731
When they don't have to walk few miles to get water, then boil it to clean it up, finally making it usable for drinking/cooking.

Despite what people want to think, water is a FINITE resource as well. Go to places like South Sudan to see how precious a few drops of water are.

Paying for water emerged from there being too many humans in an area and us needing infrastructure to replenish and protect our existing water supply.

When you dont pay for water you get scenarios like in that shitty american town with no drinkable water forever

>>2545720

yes because we can't fucking use the ocean as a good source of safe water, if it is, then fuck UNLI WATER madafucka

>>2541731
People mostly don't mind paying for water that they can trust is sanitized and safe to drink,. Having to get water yourself for free would have to be boiled first in order to make sure one didn't get sick from drinking it or bathing in it.

>>2541731
God almighty the shitshow that happened in ireland when water charges were being introduced was something to behold.

>>2545864
Yeah we actually can't use the ocean for water. We'd destroy the fucking planet if we did that, desalinization is horrifically bad for the environment.

>>2546932
Was? Still protests even 2 years later

It's bullshit for residential users of water to have to pay. Virtually all treated water goes to businesses, virtually all contaminated water comes out of businesses. If businesses pay a few percent more per liter, nobody else would ever have to pay for any. Businesses can then pass on the costs to customers, and enact measures to preserve water.

>>2546932

>system is designed so people who use less water have to subsidize people who use more

>>2548742
Yep, that's how pretty much everything you pay the government for works

>>2548755

But this time people protested against it and stopped it.

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>>2541731
goyim has always payed for water, it isnt anything new

>>2547533

How is desalinization bad for the environment?

>>2548846
>Disrupts ecosystems where water is drawn
>Sucks in organisms with the water
>Energy consumption to evaporate water
>Creates waste

It's not horrifically bad per se, but it's all a matter of scale.

>>2549033

>Disrupts ecosystems where water is drawn

How?

>Sucks in organisms with the water

This is fixed with large intake surfaces (for low in-flow pressure) that have filters over them.

>Energy consumption to evaporate water

This will only become less and less of a problem over time, as we make the transition to non-fossil energy sources.

>Creates waste

We can either process the solids for all the minerals and salt they contain, and get more bang for our watt, or just put them back into the ocean.

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>>2541731
>choose to live somewhere without water
>complain that you have to pay someone to fetch it for you

alternatively,
>live somewhere with water
>choose to be lazy and pay to have someone fetch it for you, while complaining that they aren't doing it for free