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...and yet I advocate raising rates. Because guess what? As you
found out, if you "conserve" voluntarily, your rates are going to to
go up anyway! What we pay for water isn't for the water, but for the
infrastructure that brings it to us, and those costs are almost entirely
fixed whether I use 10,000 acre-feet or a single drop. The
"voluntary" approach that government usually use to deal with these
crisis situations only rewards inefficient use, and punishes the
efficient.