Posted on 05/03/2023 3:01:10 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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‘The real price of water’
One of the biggest issues that may have to be tackled is how much Utahns pay for water. Israel, for example, charges a tariff for water use. For the average Israeli household, it’s about $150 per household each month. Utah’s water rates vary, depending on where you live and how much you use. That doesn’t even cover the true cost of water which is absorbed by property taxes (and some nonprofits, like churches and schools, don’t pay any property taxes and therefore pay next to nothing for water).
“It's the conversation we need to have,” said Rep. Casey Snider, R-Paradise, who co-chairs the Utah State Legislature’s Great Salt Lake Caucus. “The legislature started down that road. We've had conversations about ensuring that people are feeling the real price of water and that's maybe what they do here better in Israel.”
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It looks like Utahns are about to pay more for water and they're going to feel it.
“It looks like Utahns are about to pay more for water and they’re going to feel it.”
It will be due to global warming and women and minorities will be hardest hit.
Google Microsoft Data Centers (Cloud) & wee how much water each one CONSUMES DAILY...
CONSUMES——NOT recycled.
One of my former neighbors installed underground storage tanks for rainwater for a living.
My Florida county water charge is $2.72 per thousand gallons.
Around 1990 I paid about $21 a quarter for water and sewer in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Here in Southern Oregon, we have to have water trucked in. All three wells on our property are dry as dust. $90 a load, 2 loads a week during the summer. Bring on the rain!
How long has that been going on?
OUCH!!!
Y’all have lots of rivers in Oregon. And parts of the state get plenty of rain. Bad management? Or are you way out of utilities service area?
Is this a supply and demand problem or is it Liquidity?
That Israeli cost is in the process of dropping sharply, as their Netanya desalinization plant (largest on Earth) moves to full capacity. then Israel will have a surplus of 20% more water than needed.
It’s been a couple of years. Our wells were never year-round producers, but they were making water from Oct-Jul most years. We’re up on a ridge, and most of the houses in the hills around here have the same issue. Folks at the bottom of the hill have it a bit better, but it’s still hit or miss. We drilled a 1,000 foot well in 2015 and came up dry. Our neighbor’s well is 1,500 feet and he’s got nothing either. Going to do some work on the other two (possibly fracking) to see if we can get something going.
Yep, we can see the “mighty” Rogue River from our bedroom window. We’re about 3 miles from the nearest municipal connection so we’re kind of stuck. The Rogue Valley is in a rain shadow between the Cascades, so less than 20” of rain per year. Eugene is about 150 miles north of us, and they get double the amount of rain. We’ve had year after year of drought, and it’s taken a toll on the groundwater. Going to have to do something, but we can have a lot of water trucked in for the price of a new well. We probably couldn’t duplicate this property anywhere else, so it’s the price we pay right now.
Consume daily? The water is mostly used for cooling and is recycled. But if its an issue, make them pay for it.
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