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... which is perfectly reasonable. What's your point?
I think his point is that price economics would allow you to at least have _some_ water if you wanted it bad enough to pay more. EDIT: Perhaps more importantly, dynamic priceing could be more efficient than a regime in which you can use huge amounts of water at a low fixed cost, and then suddenly none when it runs out.
Right, and the point of a water ration is to ensure that everybody limits their water use to some prescribed amount.
What you and the OP are describing is arguably a bug, not a feature.
The point of contention here is not of price economics per se, but of politics. At issue is whether or not one should be able to circumvent a ration by virtue of his monetary resources. Some people (including myself) find this notion distasteful.