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The water here in Queens is very foul. Cloudy, yuk. I filter or buy my water. In Sydney I drank tap water, until people got sick from it one year and all the grimey pipes got uncovered.
The thing is, water has never been free. Primally, humans had to go to the source (river/lake/bore/well) to get it. Or pay someone else to, which is what bottled water represents.
But fresh piped water is something society pays for. Taxes, water rates and the like. Hardly free. Bottled water is more user pay.
Honestly I think with the water wastage going on in places like northern China (drying up ancient rivers etc) greater user pay mightn't be such a bad idea.
It's our most valuable resource. Yet the perception is, it's free and limitless.
Let's hope they don't need to start selling canned air.... air IS something we get freely.
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