Comment by cestith
3 years ago
In many rural places in the US, the majority of homes have their own septic tank and leech field. Some homes (although it's much rarer) even haul in their own water by truck. Power and phone are often on poles. They probably use LP gas brought in by truck. So often the main concern is the water mains.
I live in one of those rural homes. We only get electricity (and natural gas too, but that's unusual around here) brought in. Water and sewer are on-site. Phone is VoIP. Internet is wireless (via an ISP I built). Rural piped water is very rare here.
Lots of rural folks rely on well water.
True. Many of the places that are low-hanging fruit for rural Internet access do not, but it's a mix. Many of these places that the comments are dismissing as irredeemably remote are along secondary highways less than five miles from a city limit. Lots of those places have water mains, but certainly there are places with private wells.