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Water rights are strictly controlled in Idaho. You can't build on vacant land if you lack sufficient water rights to supply the buildings. A local land owner in the Pocatello area wanted to put up a large housing tract on his property. No go. He doesn't have the water to do the job. That's a better policy than just allowing endless building with no consideration for resources as is the norm around San Diego.

I rent a room in San Diego. The landlord/owner lives in the house along with another tenant. We are all very frugal with water use. The water bill keeps coming in at $200 every two months. We questioned how the bill could be so damned high. We were shown the water usage. We use very little water. The usage sensitive part of the bill is very small. Most of the $200 covers "infrastructure" and lavish retirement plans for the water district employees. We could use zero water and still have that big bill. Total crap and corruption. When there is no noticeable impact on the bill when we try like hell to save water, what is the incentive to bother at all?