The Town Water System Problem

Your town decides to build a centralized water system.

It helps many in the community. It’s more efficient. It provides standardized quality and access to that quality for more people. The generated revenue lessens individuals’ tax burden. 

But, you have a well, and it works fine. Water’s clean. Tastes great. You maintain it. Cheap. No need to change anything.

Now you’re being asked to pay for installation and then monthly for access to something that you think is probably worse than you currently have.

You didn’t ask for it. You don’t need it. 

That is the conundrum of the individual versus the collective and the present versus the future. The new system may not serve you better, at least not right now. 

But what about tomorrow, or five years from now? And what about your neighbor?