Water’s cheap. I have a 2,000 livable area square ft. Home on two acres and spend about $10.00/month on water. They’ll be OK if they spend a bit less on basketball shoes and more on
water.
We didn't have running water, electricity or a phone until I was 7.
Living in rural Vermont, that was just the way it was.
Nobody thought of complaining.
When we did get a phone, it was on a 12 party line.
We lived in an old logging company camp building, you could see through the cracks in the walls.
In the winter it got down to 42 below inside.
No big deal.
“Water’s cheap. I have a 2,000 livable area square ft. Home on two acres and spend about $10.00/month on water.”
Somewhere in the article it talks about that they are trying to get people on a metered system, and shooting for $40 per month bills. And early on it said “$150 or two months”. Not sure if that means a month is around $75 or not.
I was going to recommend water rationing if they want to lower their bills - but it sounds like they aren’t metered anyway. I don’t know when clean water becomes “too expensive”, but if my city decided to just jack up the price to some flat rate to cover their mess, and then tell me we’ll turn your water off and take away your kids if you don’t pay your bill; I wouldn’t like it either.
Now if they are just complaining about the typical, “normal” water bill that they don’t pay - tell them to go to the library and search “how to build a water purifier”.