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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Unfortunately, as a child, most people remain blissfully ignorant of such "hidden" household expenses and get a nasty shock when they grow up and have to fend for themselves.
Not least with water, because when you asked for a juice or a glass of milk, you'd often get told to have a glass of tap water "because it's free" !!
I had no idea that rates/poll tax/council tax type bills existed, and never thought about home & contents insurance either. Electricity & gas were vague commodities _ I knew they weren't free, as in "turn that bl**dy light off", but then, as I couldn't see them either, never really understood the fuss my parents used to make.
Why should water be free, any more than electricity or gas?
Sure, when people drew the water from their own wells then it could be described as free. But nowadays water has to be collected, cleaned, distributed and eventually cleared away. This all has to be paid for. And it should fall to the consumer to pay for the amount of usage.
I will, however, hold up my hands and say that I am a fully paid up member of the NIMBY brigade. I run a boarding cattery, we use a dishwasher for cleaning the feeding bowls and a washing machine for the bedding; we also have a wild life pond and a Koi Carp pond, and I would hate to think what my water bills would be if I was metered!!
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