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If the residents are not paying any taxes, the $100 a month is low. Do the math.</p> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </li> <li> <div class="comment_author_image"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150321122126/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=38602029"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150321122126im_/http://graph.facebook.com/38602029/picture?type=square"/> </a> </div> <div class="comment_body"> <div class="comment_time"> March 20 @ 8:04 a.m. </div> <p class="byline"> <span class="author"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150321122126/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=38602029">Alex Caple</a> </span> via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150321122126/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153093491325837">Texas Tribune on Facebook</a> </p> <p class="comment">Great series that highlights our State's tango with for-profit water suppliers: how do you guarantee a basic human need when you encompass it deregulation and little oversight?<br/><br/>Folks living in Highland Park or Alamo Heights would never be subjected to similar treatment, even while paying the same price for water.</p> <ul class="actions clearfix"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150321122126/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153093491325837"><span>+</span> Reply</a></li> </ul> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </li> <li> <div class="comment_author_image"> </div> <div class="comment_body"> <div class="comment_time"> March 20 @ 9:12 a.m. </div> <p class="byline"> <span class="author"> DavidV </span> </p> <p class="comment">Why don't they do rainwater harvesting?<br/></p> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </li> <li> <div class="comment_author_image"> </div> <div class="comment_body"> <div class="comment_time"> March 20 @ 2:08 p.m. </div> <p class="byline"> <span class="author"> Jim Vance </span> </p> <p class="comment">Whoever the original developers of the subdivision and the water system might have been, they took the initial money and went away with their profits, leaving residents and property owners -- and someone (or -ones) foolish enough to remain involved with the water system and willing to take their profits by maintaining high rates and deferring maintenance -- holding the present-day bag for this particular debacle, which is just one among many around the state.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, the responsible Texas agencies have largely been stymied (or just completely AWOL) from any mitigation by the lasting effects of all those business-friendly political toadies in past decades repeatedly proclaiming "Regulation? 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