Grace and Dominance

Spikots are at our command. They suggest the economy of dominance. Wells suggest the economy of grace. But for the giver of water, the well runs dry. The well gives or the well withholds. This is suggestive of a similar distinction we find in Genesis and Exodus. There the distinction is between bricks and stone/earth. Both serve the same function, but the text associates the former with technological striving (the tower of Babel) and dominance (the Israelites as slaves in the brickyards of the Egyptians). The latter is what God commands an alter to Him to be built from. The stone/earth is directly a gift from God; the brick is a more versatile technology representing humanity's 'improvement' on God's gift, to better serve OUR ends.
Ultimately, if our aim is to obtain drinking water, the spikot is more reliable. We would all choose the spikot, given the choice (unless we're simply contrarian). That is to say, we are so situated, vis a vis technology/the economy of domination that we will consistently choose it (and it is perfectly rational to do so). However, it necessarily follows that doing so seperates us from the economy of grace (bestowal of gifts).