Not to mention quality of service. Sure, electricity is electricity. Water is water.

But outages, outage response times, infrastructure, investments, etc. are the other side if the equation.

I have no idea. Maybe investor-owned utilities also provide worse service. However, without accounting for that, the article's claims don't mean much.

> electricity is electricity. Water is water.

except its completely not:

electricity has stability, availability during peak loads, robustness under inclement weather etc.

Water has purity, safety, and flavor. (Austin water in the fall tastes like leaves :gross:)