Comment by relaxing
6 months ago
> it gives the utility more money to spend on drawing more water and improve infrastructure.
Deeply unserious, gradeschool-level economics. “Infrastructure” isn’t a marginal cost you can smoothly ramp up when a big new consumer comes online.
Why then is there a general negative correlation between the cost of potable water and the population of an area in places where freshwater is plentiful? There's a lot of literature on water economics and this pattern usually holds.
Because that’s looking at the macro level when the problems are occurring at the micro level.
Or more generally, what you said has nothing to do with it.