A few years ago [0], 60k homes in sacremento, the states capital, still had no water meters.

Its only been 2 years since they started actually controlling the pumping of groundwater, and that fight took well over a decade. [1]

[0] https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article4215302.html

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/07/22/1019483661/without-enough-wat...