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government didn't build the railroads or telegraph lines either.
Some of the municipal water districts are very large, and very powerful, and run like a private company. And they are not all meritorius. Read up on the LA Dept Water and Power. And cross reference Daniel Yergin, and a little ol book titled "Cadillac Desert".
I don't get the statement about how electric and water is so expensive in rural areas that "development stops". That's crazy talk. If anything, it's available very very dirt cheap compared to the costs to bring service in, and maintain it. I know because we have hundreds of thousands of square miles of remote and very rural neighborhoods around here, and they all have electric power and most but not all have telephone service.
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