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Originally Posted by Don B.
But, for the record, Phoenix pays for...water...
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Right, and so does every city--up to a point.
San Francisco owns a huge flooded valley next to Yosemite up in the Sierra called Hetch Hetchy. San Francisco flooded that valley and dammed it up; the city owns and operates the power and water facilities there, as well as the lines snaking 200 miles between the mountains and the Bay. San Francisco's municipal water empire serves 2.4 million customers throughout the Bay Area. That's all part of this city's annual budget.
It's that sort of stuff that makes an apples-to-apples comparison difficult, but your effort is still appreciated.