The Washington  Post has this same story by a different author who followed one of the water truckers who had to drive god knows where to fill up his truck.The trucker had a bag full of quarters and, 25 cents at a time, bought 6000 gallons for 85 quarters -- a pathetic $21.25.For 6 THOUSAND gallons of culinary water.  That's 2.92 cents per gallon.I live in Utah and this heavily government subsidized impossibly cheap water is a massive part of the problem.  Nobody wants to conserve cheap water. The folks in this subdivision are about to discover the REAL cost of water -- all the thousands spent on pipelines, reservoirs and who knows what else -- so they can sit in the middle of nowhere and complain about big government. But it is silly that they can still take their can over to that tap and fill up for 3 cents a gallon.

The Washington  Post has this same story by a different author who followed one of the water truckers who had to drive god knows where to fill up his truck.The trucker had a bag full of quarters and, 25 cents at a time, bought 6000 gallons for 85 quarters -- a pathetic $21.25.For 6 THOUSAND gallons of culinary water.  That's 2.92 cents per gallon.I live in Utah and this heavily government subsidized impossibly cheap water is a massive part of the problem.  Nobody wants to conserve cheap water. The folks in this subdivision are about to discover the REAL cost of water -- all the thousands spent on pipelines, reservoirs and who knows what else -- so they can sit in the middle of nowhere and complain about big government. But it is silly that they can still take their can over to that tap and fill up for 3 cents a gallon.

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