Well it has a poll and many people debate about it in many places I seen. If people had to find their own water and filtered it themselves I can see that as a method of realizing the true value of water considering how much water is left in the sources.
Okay, yes pay per what you use, you use more you pay more.
So how about a family who is struggling to pay other bills and they have to economise the water under health levels as critics were concerned about and my vision about a single rich person living across the road who has a large swimming pool to fill, except he can afford water he does not need for basic hygiene or survival. Is that really fair?
"Who can afford what."
An example in hot areas:
A rich person can afford to water his garden in hot weather to keep the crops and flowers healthy. A poor person can only depend on the rain or a storage collector and eventually choose between the survival of the garden crops and flowers or the other important needs.
All at the same time, the water company can put up rates if their water storage is low as a way of cutting people down from my view like bidding and making money behind people's backs.
I think that using large amounts of water that is not in the interest of the environment or certain amount of people could be charged more depending on the impact of their storage like for companies who use local water to bottle it.
I can see that putting a price as to money on the measurement of water is not fair to who needs it most rather than who wants it.
That is a point of paying the luxuries for the rich, but I thought there are many ways they charged for water also based on the profits and most I see are not by the average.
Well with or without meters did you read my previous post on what they are doing in places like Africa with pre paid meters?
Even the bank intervenes on the advantages of cost recovery whilst the people are paying the price of the rich companies.
http://www.citizen.o...manright/meter/Also is it fair that they privatised the water services from the public and then who needed the water but couldn't afford as for costing more than their earnings had to drink the dirty water to only to become worse?
All for profit instead of health
So I see:
First the public builds their water system.
People benefit and becomes dependent on it.
The government sees it as a ripe crop,
They sells it to a company who pre pay meter everybody, the same company who normal meters their local customers in their own country.
Last of all the public is left back to what free water they begun with, dirty water.
The government took that away that for profit, left them in the dark and did not even give them the chance of bulk buying.
Many ways how people can pay the price of the rich.
Sorry about the length of this post. I have so much to express and questions to ask.
This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 01 July 2006 - 07:41 AM