Water Pricing Debate

Because water isn't priced properly.

the price of water isn't really subject to market forces though; it's usually provided by a regulated utility or directly by the government. based on the existence of lawns in arid places, I'd argue water is mispriced. in this particular case, it seems better than the alternative where poor people can't afford drinking water.

this doesn't seem like fair thing to do at all. Clean water-acess is a basic human right, market forces should not determine who pays how much. Think of children of poor families born into areas where clean water is expensive...i don't want to imagine the consequences.

How is being able to buy water for $1M worse than not being able to buy it at all?

Why isn't the price of water tied to the price of supply?

too much water goes to users that don't pay a market price. that means subsidies or shortages, as it does in other markets.

Your water bill (theoretically) funds the infrastructure that treats and delivers your water. It's not as if you can bottle it at home and resell it on the market, in most cases you would need to set up a corporation and make an official deal with the relevant partiesThis is like claiming that paying your garbage bill or firefighting bill (in places that charge for it) is "trading" your sanitation or protection from having your house burn down. They're services, not produc

Guess what, they would figure it out if they were charged more for their non-life giving water use, vs the rest of us just trying to drink

This is a terrible analogy, the water in this case is paid for by the consumer.

Kind of crazy we let them blow through our limited clean water supplies just because it's cheaper