In Utah, you’re either dying of thirst, metaphorically, or you’re drowning. But mostly, you’re dying of thirst.
All of which means you should be paying more for the water you use. Probably a lot more.
The Utah Foundation, an independent, nonprofit research group, is in the middle of a three-part series of reports on water costs and conservation in the state. The latest one contains this bit of wisdom, which ought to be self-evident: “Utah ranks among both the driest and fastest-growing states in the nation. It is therefore essential that Utah’s water is well-managed to ensure the sufficiency of affordable quality of water into the future.”
That means we need to use less of it.
Governments have two options to make this happen. They can begin charging people more to use it. As the report says: “It is a well-established economic principle that the more an individual pays for a product, the less that individual will tend to use it.”
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