Hundreds lose water source in Colorado's poorest county with no notice
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·August 25, 2025CodingJeebus
Steven420
I believe they were paying for the water
nyeah
10 cents a gallon, it says, and they haul it themselves.
Kapura
they do pay into it, every time they buy the water. exchanging currency for valuable goods is a pretty well-established process.
Kapura
it is absolutely wild that a 3-to-2 vote that wasn't announced beforehand could put so many people at risk. obviously governments haven't acted to serve the people since at least Citizen's United, but this is like, society breaking down shit.
mooreds
Saw this on a social network with a mention of Paolo Bacigalupi's "The water knife", which is a great scifi book about a future with water wars.
> The fight over the water has pitted residents of Fort Garland who have plumbing and pay for metered water against those living outside the city limits with cisterns. The board of the Fort Garland Water and Sanitation District — which cut off water sales to rural residents Aug. 1 in a 3-2 vote that wasn’t even on its meeting agenda — has devolved into shouting matches and dysfunction.
I don't begrudge people who choose to live outside of municipalities in order to avoid taxes, but it's hard to empathize with them when the municipality they're not paying into makes a decision on behalf of their own voters/taxpayers. Hopefully the county/private sector resolves it soon.