Your post brings up the cost to water users.
I don’t know if posters around the country realize that for a three bed room home without kids and only minor landscape irrigation, the water bill in the east Bay area is over $500.00 a month.
That is without a sewer add on or monthly trash fees of other extraneous costs sometimes added to local water bills. Domestic Water only.
You can rent a cheap apartment around here for close to that! Wow.
Seriously, I pay an average of $20 per 2-month period for water. And no sewer bill because I'm on a septic system.
California. Nice place to visit. Wouldn’t want to live there, at least these days.