We know what people want, though: they want the sewage system fixed and to continue paying the same amount for water and sewage as before, and they've been convinced they can have it by cynical populist campaigners and politicians telling them that they were already paying for this and the evil, greedy privatised water companies just stole the money and used it for shareholder profits. (They were not. The amounts the regulators allowed the water companies to charge were way too low to cover it, basically by design since people weren't willing to pay that much and didn't consider it worth fixing until a year or so ago. All of the shareholder dividends post-privatisation were not enough to pay for it, and of course without those dividends no-one would invest anyway.) Oh, and they don't want the inconvenience of having their streets dug up to install the new infrastructure either.