[pfranz]

I'm not really sure what you're getting at. Like others have said, “Water can’t be free anywhere” seems to be inevitable at a commercial level--but dystopian on an individual level. If you had neighbors in your rural area aggressively pumping water out of the ground your well would dry up...and you'd be paying "market price" for it.

Just looking at water usage when I owned a house, irrigation uses a ridiculous amount of water relative to everything else individuals use to live--including laundry, bathing, dishes, etc. If memory serves, sewage costs are significantly more than the water itself (and sewage as metered off of water consumption--so you're likely paying sewage feeds on water you're irrigating with).

The actual cost of enough clean drinking water for people is very small. Enough that drinking fountains are common and people shouldn't need to ration drinking water.

[shzhdbi09gv8ioi]

> Like others have said, “Water can’t be free anywhere” seems to be inevitable at a commercial level--but dystopian on an individual level.

This is why we need a democracy with human rights being protected [1,2].

If not even fundamental things like water (or air) is free, you have to ask yourself how did we get here and how do we leave?

1: https://www.unwater.org/water-facts/human-rights-water-and-s... 2: https://truthout.org/articles/un-declares-water-and-sanitati...

[ItsMonkk]

Yep, this is why we need a water price and dividend system.

Whenever you use water it is tracked and you pay the market price. All of that is then collected and put into a pot. It is then given back equally to everyone.

Everyone is thus incentivized to use less and those that use less than the average amount of water - a huge majority of people since the heaviest users use so much - will receive more money than they spent.

[WalterBright]

> It is then given back equally to everyone.

Use it to fund the government.

[ItsMonkk]

Eh, NIT and any sort of UBI are mathematically the same thing given you still have an income tax and can adjust the percentage. This just accomplishes that goal in a progressive way.