[RegulatorCountry]

If water “use” rises but water utility billing receipts don’t, your ancient municipal water system is failing.

The city population certainly isn’t rising and neither is industrial usage.

Ka-ching. Wonder if the “usage” of the city sewer system is “rising” too?

Probably.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Strangely, Chicago’s population increased to 2,714,856 in 2012 from 2,695,598 in the 2010 census.

Young people are moving back to the downtown area. We’ll see if they can survive the taxes.

[TheRightGuy]

it was not until relatively recently, the past couple decades, that the city even tried to collect for water usage. in some areas of the city these are still no water meters installed. even among those with meters, many just ignore paying the bills and the city does very little to collect.

[pierrem15]

Bingo-- and the best part for the City is that the more broken it is, the more they can charge in water and sewer fees.

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