2006-09-11 17:51:51 · 17 answers · asked by WENDY D 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
If you have your own well then you don't pay for water but you do pay for the electricity that runs your pump.
If you are on city water, you are paying for the water treatment facility and administration cost.
By air, I am assuming you mean when you pay to put air in your tires... the machines. You are paying for the service.
Also, ppl pay for bottled water. I assume that is the cost of the bottle, etc... not the water.
2006-09-11 18:07:57 · answer #1 · answered by BeachBum 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Such is life.
A hundred years ago people would only live near fresh water sources, or collect rain water until they could get a well dug.
Now we have the convenience of just turning on a faucet. And we pay for that concenience. Someone else has to divert the water & prep it so it is safe.
But if it's not safe enough for your standards, or it has a jucky taste, you can pay for bottled water.
Nobody has yet to bill me for breathing so I'd have to say air is free.
2006-09-12 01:22:02 · answer #2 · answered by Smart Kat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are paying for air? You must be the only person on planet earth paying for air. Hey, I've got some dirt for you to buy, and blue sky too, so contact me at my email and I'll tell you where to send the check.
2006-09-12 01:00:59 · answer #3 · answered by commonsense 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You don't have to if you don't want to. Just grab your bucket (make sure it's a metal bucket), head down to the nearest creak, and bring it back to your place. Grab a couple of sticks from your tree, rub them together, make a fire, and put the bucket of water on the fire until boil. Watch it, though, you don't want it to evaporate. Let cool and boil again. (This is to kill the bacteria from sewage, people and animals peeing and pooping in it and doing who knows what else in it. Not to mention all the hazardous chemicals that seap into the streams.) And wahlaa.... you have a perfectly drinkable glass of water! As for the air, I only pay for it when my horse gets a flat! Welcome to the 21st century, darling!
2006-09-12 01:04:17 · answer #4 · answered by Kingdom_Queen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are not paying for the water, you are paying for the water treatment facilities that makes it safe to drink. If you are talking about compressed air, it takes electric or gasoline to run the air compressor that makes it possible. So you are paying for the cost of compressing the air. But water and air in there raw form are yours for the taking. But I myself wouldn't go down to the nearest stream and take even a sip!
2006-09-12 00:58:11 · answer #5 · answered by madroofer36 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, unless you have city water, where it goes through a treatment plant. Or if you have an outhouse instead of a sewer system. Or if you can walk outside of your home and dip your bucket into the river, instead of having the plumbing and water mains outside your home.
Nothing is gotten for free, sister.
2006-09-12 01:02:18 · answer #6 · answered by volleyballchick (cowards block) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about paying for air, now water IS free. But unless you want to drink contaminated water,be my guest. I'll drink tap water,or better yet, I'll drink water gone thru a filter.
2006-09-12 00:59:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Water is free, go to any natural resource. There's a cost associated with making the water safe to drink, so they put the cost on us.
2006-09-12 00:58:24 · answer #8 · answered by Mariposa 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm afraid it's not free anymore. We've polluted them so badly in the last 50 years that they both need filtration and of course that costs money.
2006-09-12 01:13:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Live next to a fresh water stream.
No?
Welcome to Capitalism. Do you also know we are patenting living things now? Which is highly controversial, not to mention illegal not only in American but the entire world. Bah! who Care's, we're Americans and we have every right to own you!
2006-09-12 00:54:04 · answer #10 · answered by freetinka 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋