The story of our water bill
January 27, 2016
January 2015
DROUGHT! DROUGHT! You must use less water because DROUGHT! If you don’t, we’ll be forced to fine you or charge higher rates for higher usage.
September 2015
Good job, you saved so much! The state will now not fine us for being wasteful.
December 2015
Because you used so little water this year, we didn’t collect enough money to cover our costs so we’re charging you 15% more.
January 2016
Use less water! Oh by the way, your bill is 20% higher.
Me: ……
That’s the same story we had here. We didn’t have a drought but have had a couple of pretty rainy summers so water consumption was down…and as a reward they raised the bills 10-12% last year because they have to still cover all the fixed costs.
It’s like, why even bother….
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Do you store water from rainfall?
*cringe*
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I can only hope it stops here š
Whaaaaa? Someone needs to go smack that city department around a bit.
They have got to figure out how to budget better!
On the plus side, you’d probably have to pay even more if you’d used more water.
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So at least we get to feel environmentally sound, if a bit poorer.
This is the never ending story of California. You could replace water with gasoline or electricity.
It is always a bit of something here.
Ugh! I’ve heard of others having that same issue. So far so good here, although I’ve pretty much always used not much water. Now that we’ve been getting regular rain the irrigation system is turned off, and since I’m not allowed to take baths yet I’m not wallowing in a big tub of hot water. Those are the only two things that use a lot of water in this household.
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Hope it stays that way for you!
I stopped enjoying baths last year because of the drought, I didn’t miss it TOO much until winter started again.