[Slansitartop]

What are you going to do, switch to another water utility?

They could just wait to clean up their act once they see competition on the horizon (or just go through the motions), which would more than likely scare that competition off. Building a water utility isn't cheap and I doubt there would be enough profit in a competitive environment to justify the cost.

[posterboy]

I mean, taken ad absurdum, they don't want to kill their customer base.