> "You're right, if people can't afford water to drink, they're clearly not valuable enough to live."
Let's do the math.
Adults need about 3 liters of water per day [1], but let's round up to 1 gallon. Where I live, in SF, a single family residence is currently charged about $5 for the first "unit" of water per month, which is 748 gallons, so about $0.007 per gallon.
Residential water prices could go up at least an order of magnitude and no one would die of dehydration. People may have to cut back on showers/laundry/car washes, but isn't that exactly what we want?
Let's do the math.
Adults need about 3 liters of water per day [1], but let's round up to 1 gallon. Where I live, in SF, a single family residence is currently charged about $5 for the first "unit" of water per month, which is 748 gallons, so about $0.007 per gallon.
Residential water prices could go up at least an order of magnitude and no one would die of dehydration. People may have to cut back on showers/laundry/car washes, but isn't that exactly what we want?
[1] http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/nutrition-and-healt...
[2] http://www.sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=168