How does an empty plot of land get access to water and electricity for a new building or house?
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If your land is near electric / water / sewer lines, you pay the company that operates those lines for a hookup.
If your land’s not near existing lines, it gets harder. Basically your choices are:
– (a) Do without. If your building’s going to be a shed for storing extra junk or a rustic cabin you visit for a weekend of “roughing it,” you might not need electricity or running water.
– (b) Pay big money to get the company to extend the lines.
– (c) Convince the government to force the company to extend the lines.
– (d) Figure out another way (generators, solar panels, water jugs / bottles, digging a well, a [septic tank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septic_tank), coolers full of ice for cooling food, candles / lanterns for nighttime lighting, burning wood for cooking / heating, propane heating / stove, primitive [bathroom facilities](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outhouse) with no running water, etc.)
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