The lollipops are a built-in charge with an assumption of only taking a couple.<p>If you take ten and explicitly pay a dollar, everyone is happy.<p>The water in California has a limited supply, yes, but the use is plenty elastic.  If it was all worth a moderate price per gallon, there wouldn&#x27;t be such an issue.  The elasticity and constant inflow mean that a price asymptote is just not going to happen.