10-07-2018, 10:25 AM
(10-07-2018, 09:07 AM)Spaceman Spiff Wrote: A 'penny buys ~ 66 gallons' is a little deceptive. In my S&B, every quarter the first drop of water costs me $28, after that it is $1 per thousand gallons.I was addressing the common usage. When we drink from a water fountain we usually don't deposit a penny to cover the monthly service fee. The public source has already paid the service fee before the 'dweller arrived. Sunk cost.
But let's include the service fee. The industry group (american water and wastewater associate) shows total billing including monthly fees as .$0.004612/gallon for an average household using 7,480 gallons/mo.(2014 survey)
If we include service fees our 10gal of water now costs 4.6 cents/week or 18.4 cents/month. Admittedly more than the water-only cost I provided earlier.
Quote:If a town or city decides it is important to subsidize an industry's water I don't care, they are paying for it, not me.
I mentioned becasuse the locals are paying for it, which seems to be the crux of the "don't take public water" position.
Quote:I have no problem taking 10 gallons of water from a publicly available source. Most sinks in public bathrooms I have been in are not conducive to a water bandit.
Agreed. I used a collapsible container.
Quote:And if someone has taken the handle off a faucet I need to ask permission (usually granted, if I can find someone to ask); I have been told more than a few times that water from that faucet is untreated, used only for irrigation, as the reason for it being restricted.
Good points, particularly valuable in agricultural areas.
