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cnewtonne:
I could not believe it too when I saw my hospital bill. They charged me for 'air' when I did my colonoscopy too!!!

iphigenie:
They have already conned people into buying water !!
-Carol Haynes (February 03, 2006, 07:47 AM)
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I think that if you use resources that are shared by everyone but not necessarily renewable with no costs to society, there should be a charge - that goes for wrecking water by pollution as well as using it. Having to pay for it gives people and businesses an incentive to think about what is done and how and possibly find better ways to do things.

The big challenge is who should get this money and what it should be used for.

The water company should get a fee for delivering the water and pressure, but they should be paying for the water they use. Partly they do it by paying for the treatments plants I guess, but still, if they had to pay for the water they probably wouldnt waste it as much.

Carol Haynes:
I was thinking more of the current obsession with bottled water.

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