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Are you illiterate? I don't even know how it could be said any simpler.
To be fair even I had no idea what it was about and needed some to give me context.
I mean just because this quote is about a specific case doesn't mean it doesn't also apply to so many others around the world.
I didn't know the original context, but I still got the meaning.
Fair enough yea. I figured that out it was just a new concept entirely to me
Thanks for keeping on reading, continuing to learn, and not getting discouraged. Everybody is one of those lucky 10,000 about something, every day. (Well, unless you've stopped learning, or you're dead.)
Drinking water is free and is available to everyone. The post makes no sense.
It's someone that doesn't know what utility bills are...
Like, I don't think any country has free potable water. But the bill is so small it's not something a parent wouldn't complain about.
So they just assume that it's free
Norway has free water for everyone. Completely free, no questions asked. Private households don't even have water meters.
https://lemmy.world/comment/6461913
Water is free in every pub and restaurant. There are free water refill stations in most train stations and malls. There are plenty of water fountains in the parks and on the streets. And then you have 20 cubic metres abstraction allowance per day https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-if-you-need-a-licence-to-abstract-water Considering that the average person in Britain uses around 150 litres per day, 20 bloody tons per day is more than enough. You only pay for convenience if you want. Water is free otherwise.
Wow I didn't realize the entire world was the UK.
I used to live elsewhere before and water was free as well.
Truly a world traveler. You're right, why don't the peoples on reservation land just go down to the local mall and fill up at the bottle station? So obvious!
I, too, have lived in all of the world's 195 countries and can say with authority that none of them, not a single one, doesn't offer free water in their pubs. Not even pubs in places like Saudi Arabia. You can go into any pub there, even if you're a woman and get free water.
You wrote comment 6461913, and then pasted a link to it 4 more times. Why are you so desperate to argue that your experience is the only possible experience? I feel like I just watched a Dunning-Kreuger empathy 0% speedrun.
Flint, Michigan, Erin Brockovich, a shocking number of tribespeople from the Amazon, and the CEO of Nestle would all like a word with you.
https://lemmy.world/comment/6461913
You should step out of your bubble more often before getting angry about others' situations.
Apparently you don't even pay a water bill?
Explained here https://lemmy.world/comment/6461913
https://chicagodefender.com/beyond-flint-5-cities-in-the-us-impacted-by-water-inequality/
https://www.worldvision.org/clean-water-news-stories/10-worst-countries-access-clean-water
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/drinking-water
https://www.cdp.net/en/research/global-reports/cleaning-up-their-act
These aren't hard to find.
https://lemmy.world/comment/6461913
What are you talking about? Water is not free in most places of the world and certainly not available to everyone.
Of course it is.
I mean just ignoring the obvious counter examples in africa where water is scarce in some places and the recent water shortage in Gaza, lets take a europe-centric view point.
You claim that water is free because you are allowed to extract it from the ground. The ground isn't free. You need to pay for owning it both initially and most countries impose an anual tax on landowners. You pay for the allowance to do anything including digging for water on your own land.
This, of course, assumes that you even have the opportunity to own land. In many places in europe it is getting prohibitively expensive to buy land, and the wealth distribution inequality is getting more extreme. So many people are literally unable to pay for the allowance to dig for their free water that you claim exists.
Yes there are some municipal water accesses but those exist because they are not used in an exploitative way. Yes there are water sources in public forests but those aren't controlled because they are not used in an exploitative way.
Water is for all intents and purposes that go beyond occasional refreshment not free.