[grcuster]

Aurora Colorado water board pulls the same B.S. They mandate conservation then penalize the citizens with higher fees, instead of firing people and cut costs.

[Mark17]

I bet that kind of puts a damper on people’s desire to conserve water.

[DannyTN]

It’s like the game of Life....You’ve been robbed, pay $50,000.

[DoughtyOne]

They don’t desalinate big-time because it would cost too much.

Instead they badger us to use less water, destroy our lawns, risk destroying our vehicles, can’t keep them maintained, and then they charge us more for water, because we try to be good citizens.

Just desalinate the water and charge us a bit more.

This is NUTS!

[TaMoDee]

Never a word about reducing COSTS to match INCOME.

[SkyDancer]

It’s the liberal mindset. Conserve water. Oops, you’re conserving too much and we’re not getting our money so we’ll raise rates. And then people conserve even more until the water district collects money for water they don’t deliver.

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[sparklite2]

“Conserve water, but there’s a catch.”
“What’s the catch?”
“We have to maintain income level to operate the water system. So the more you conserve, the lower your bill, and the more we have to raise your rates.”
“That’s some catch.”
“It’s catch-22, and it’s the best there is.”

[Jack Hammer]

Orwellian.

You’re not using water, so we’re raising the price.

[rockinqsranch]

This was expected. Totally expected once the emphasis on conserving water began.

Never fails. Whenever the call goes out to conserve the prices go up. The water department loses too much money when we conserve.

[oldbrowser]

Some of those main line pipes that are bursting are 100 years old. They should have been saving up for replacement since the pipes had a 60 year life span.
Maybe they should open us their books to see where all that money has been going.

[RickGee]

They did the same thing years ago in San Diego. They got most people to conserve water. Was that good? Nope, because there wasn’t enough water flowing in the sewers to keep things “going” if you know what I mean.

So they had to send out crews to flush out the sewers.

Then, they discovered there wasn’t enough revenue to pay their great salaries, retirements, steal for other purposes, etc.

So they started a minimum charge and raised the rates on the actual water. So you couldn’t save money even if you used NO water.

That’s one of the reasons I moved.

[eyeamok]

Decreased Revenues, great then DECREASE Spending to match.

[South40]

It's already happened here in East San Diego County.

Helix water board approves 5-year rate hike

This, in spite of the fact that there is no water shortage in San Diego.

"The county has 99 percent of the water it needs because it draws its supply from a variety of sources and has strong conservation programs."

Summit: County water supply stable

[soycd]

It’s the democrat way.

[Chode]

damned if you do damned if you don't

[hinckley buzzard]

Same thing happened in Cleveland a few years ago. No shortage of water here on the shore of Lake Erie, but the city pushed conservation anyway. Then had to raise rates to cover costs.

[WENDLE]

The drought is over!!! WATER YOUR YARDS NOW!!

[Beowulf9]

Lot more aliens to provide water to.

[cherry]

its always this way.....turn down your heat, unplug appliances, do only full loads of laundry, or dishes so you can save on electricity, you know, to save the planet, and what does it get you?....more monthly fees for the power company to make up for their "loss".

and like smokers....TPTB sure don't want them stinking smokers anywhere in public but at the same time, they depend on all that tobacco revenue.