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To: Lane3 who wrote (23252)	7/7/2006 6:05:46 PM
From: Jim S	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541379

"They wouldn't be taking the water out at the rate they are if water weren't cheap/subsidized." Someone drills a well, after paying a fee to get a permit. They pay about $15 a foot to do the drilling, and another couple thousand for the casing and pump. Another $500 to $10,000 to get power to the pump. Then they pump as much as their permit allows. Where's the cheap part or the subsidy? After the well's been in use for a few years, assuming continued production of the well, THEN the water is relatively cheap. But it certainly isn't subsidized.