Wasting Water

[rowyn]

WSJ article on low-flow showers. Includes, among other things, government regulation of showerhead pressure, plus bonus ways of subverting said regulations, and possible new regulations under consideration.

So ... stupid question: if the goal is to get people to stop wasting water, and if most municipalities own the waterworks … why don’t the municipalities raise the cost of water? I mean, I don’t care about my water usage because water is cheap.  If water weren’t cheap, I’d take steps to use less.  Don’t other people think that way too? It worked for gas when gas hit $4 a gallon; people started driving less. Am I missing something in the basic supply/demand equation here?

Comments

[level-head.livejournal.com]

I like your attitude -- but I submit that the approach will not be by violence, but by simply levying costs upon you until you behave. Or go somewhere else.

This is nationalizing California's approach, basically -- which will create a national version of California's financial condition.

California would have collapsed years ago were it not for the happy accident of the dot-com epicenter being located here.

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