• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Hardly unique to Tehran. Utah is facing the same crisis right now. Their answer has been to privatize harder.

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      It’s the opposite here (Denmark), we have clean drinking water in the entire country, but I’ve been hearing about efforts to reduce water consumption and preserving the natural resources for instance regulating agriculture as far back as I can remember, which is back to the 70’s.
      Our governments have been on top of this all the way through (mostly the left), and water is very cheap, so we have a tax on water to prevent people from using it mindlessly.

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        What’s it like living there? I’ve always wanted to become a citizen there. Love Danish music, people, culture, history, and danish danish

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          That’s very hard to make a short response to. I like it here, and I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.
          I find myself privileged to live here, although other places can have advantages in better climate, cheaper high quality food, and warmer personalities.
          But here people are more “real” than most places, we don’t do fake praising or other fake behavior as much as most cultures. I like that, but for foreigners it can be difficult.

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          As a non-Danish, I’d love to know more about what you love about Denmark.

          I have only fragments of knowledge about its medieval history, and in music, I know only of Mercyful Fate and King Diamond.

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      My city is running out of water as well. Their bright idea was just to give it away for free to Big Industry. Also water bills are going up. So that’s fun.