Is tap water free anywhere? Its more that the cost is so miniscule and the need so great that it shouldn’t really matter if you’re giving away $0.000001 worth of tap water, especially to someone paying to eat at your restaurant or stay at your hotel.
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starlinguk@lemmy.world 5 days agoYou do realise that tap water isn’t free in many European countries, right? They have a meter and get a bill every month.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That’s also the case in a lot of north american cities. If you’re pumping your own well out in the country, then it’s “free” (plus costs of running the pump and any well maintenance you need, also depending on availability in your water table), but if you’re in a town or city you have a matered water line that gets charged to cover both the clean water supply and waste management (at least that’s how it works in the Canadian town I live in, maybe other locations meter the waste side, too).
My water bill gets lumped with my power bill but they are itemized seperately with usage graphs for each of them.
If someone needed water, I’d give it to them without even thinking about the cost because my whole month of water use is only like $50 (and the metered bit is only $20 of that, though that does imply the lighter users are subsidizing the heavier ones, but that’s a seperate issue).
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
It’s literally less than a cent (euro or dollar) for a whole bottle of tap water.
Out of curiosity I checked the price I pay for tap water in Portugal and 1 m³ (1000 l) costs around €0.5, so a 2l bottle of tap water costs all of 0.01 cents.