&quot;it&#x27;s not as if this property owner isn&#x27;t paying for the extravagant water usage.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s kind of the problem though, he isn&#x27;t.  Water is notoriously subsidized.  It&#x27;s hard to make the case that 12 million gallons of clean water would only cost $90k.  The system kind of has built into it this spirit of &quot;everyone needs clean affordable water&quot;.  There was no limit put in place, so there&#x27;s some people taking crazy advantage of it.