I work, as I occasionally mention, in a customer service phone center for the public works department of the city where I live. Which is full of crazy, angry, stupid people, but that's beside the current point. I work for the water department. And people who think we're making money hand over fist on this drive me crazy.
Apparently, in the world I thought I shared with these people, clean water gets to your taps courtesy of the benevolent Public Works Fairy, who lives on sunbeams and household garbage. Water mains never break, and the city has no need of staff to repair and maintain those. Or to handle the calls related to that, to the water smelling funky, to the bills being "too high" or anything else. Getting the water from the lake clean enough that you can drink it is accomplished with a single flourish of the Public Works Fairy's magic wand, rather than with enormous plants using ungodly quantities of chemicals and requiring, I'm sure, occasional maintenance. Treating sewer? Same thing. No employees required for either! Plus, sewage treatment plants smell like ROSES. Lots and lots of beautiful pink roses.
Obviously, the fact that people have to PAY for water is an evil scheme perpetrated by water departments all across the land, since every single person (and pixie, of course!) involved in this delightful enterprise would cheerfully work here for free, and the infrastructure is supplied by magic.
Don't even get me started on trash, and on the people - evil people - who bag up their yard waste. MULCH IT YOU FOOLS! God! Oh, I guess I started. I should stop...
/rant
Apparently, in the world I thought I shared with these people, clean water gets to your taps courtesy of the benevolent Public Works Fairy, who lives on sunbeams and household garbage. Water mains never break, and the city has no need of staff to repair and maintain those. Or to handle the calls related to that, to the water smelling funky, to the bills being "too high" or anything else. Getting the water from the lake clean enough that you can drink it is accomplished with a single flourish of the Public Works Fairy's magic wand, rather than with enormous plants using ungodly quantities of chemicals and requiring, I'm sure, occasional maintenance. Treating sewer? Same thing. No employees required for either! Plus, sewage treatment plants smell like ROSES. Lots and lots of beautiful pink roses.
Obviously, the fact that people have to PAY for water is an evil scheme perpetrated by water departments all across the land, since every single person (and pixie, of course!) involved in this delightful enterprise would cheerfully work here for free, and the infrastructure is supplied by magic.
Don't even get me started on trash, and on the people - evil people - who bag up their yard waste. MULCH IT YOU FOOLS! God! Oh, I guess I started. I should stop...
/rant