[Rick Lee]

The water issue here is that the water quality sucks. It's as hard as rock. We have a citric filter in the garage, carbon filters on the sink and shower heads and Brita filter in the fridge. Mrs. Lee refuses to drink the tap water here and buys those huge jugs from Costco.

Water here is scandalously cheap already. So if/when things get bad, sure, it will get more expensive. But I think it'll be a while before a small house for two retirees racks up a painful water bill. If you have a 4k s/f house with three kids, a pool and lots of grass and landscaping, that'd be a different matter. That's not how most of the houses in Sun City are.