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Where I live people's bills are going from $100 to over $600 a month. I saw someone's post on Nextdoor saying that their bill was $2700. Ours was $963 up from about $270 with no change in usage. I would be thrilled to pay $100 a month for water.

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The person in the article said he was watering his lawn for $40/month previously. The fact that it jumped to $250 while maintaining his watering habits does not garner much sympathy from me. Were it $250 so that he might hydrate his children and maintain a reasonable standard of living, well that's another thing. But just so your grass doesn't go dormant? Here, water your grass with my tears.

In summary, I think some poor examples were chosen.

People's overall quality of life matters, and it's nice to have a lawn...

Also, you realize plant life is an important carbon sink, right? Is watering backyard trees worthy of your spite as well?

>Here, water your grass with my tears.

Perhaps you're on the wrong site, with this sort of attitude.

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