Posted on 03/08/2017 9:45:33 PM PST by Lorianne
America is in the midst of an "invisible water crisis" as the post-war water infrastructure reaches the end of its duty-cycle and cash-strapped public utilities struggle to find the money to rebuild it.
The estimated bill for upgrading the end-of-lifed American urban water infrastructure is $1 trillion. Cities that have tried privatization as a means of pushing the bill onto investors have been shocked by the bills: in Atlanta, the private water provider charges $325.52 a month, which only qualifies as "affordable" if your household income tops $87K.
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We have a population in this country that contributes NOTHING to their own upkeep; others though Planned Parenthood would rectify this situation, but that hasn’t worked out.
In my town these parasites try to walk out of Wal-Mart with flat-screen TVs in carts without paying then feign outrage when they are arrested...
“$325.52 a month, insane. I wonder how much of that is pension costs. “
Bingo. As long as reporters fail to address the real problem, government incompetence and outsized compensation and benefits, then we will go from “crisis to crisis”.
Water costs go up because water is necessary. They will shift costs onto water bills as much as possible.
The real story is that government is unaffordable, not water.
That’s always the story. It manifests itself in different ways, and “reporters” will always report on the crisis du jour, not the systemic problem, outsized government costs.
W Palm Beach water bills aren't exactly small either.
Mayor Kaseem Reed is head of the Atlanta Watershed Department of the City of Atalanta. Commissioner Kishia L. Powell runs the department. All Watershed employees are employees of the City of Atlanta.
In adjacent DeKalb County, the County government is the Water Department. The water itself comes from the government made lakes that dammed up the river.
Where is the private water provider? in this picture? But true, there is massive corruption. My bill was $1088 for Dec-Jan. I could not get it adjusted down. My wife went in, played the Mexican immigrant game, spoke Spanish and broken English, played the victim card (rather than the factual card that I did not use 500 gallons of water per day) and got away with paying only $300.
Many water employees have been convicted and many more will be convicted. Despite the convictions, employees continue to steal ... steal both water department equipment and time and money. They are government employees. They are above the law... Somebody created that culture.
Coming soon, the water stamp for the 40% who can’t pay....The Dems will help them, by raising the rates on the 60% who can pay...
Can anyone provide a breakdown of those costs?
Been there, seen that. For some it doesn’t matter if the front porch rots away as long as there’s a nice ride out in the street.
The average Philadelphia water bill is like $70/mo.
Apparently you could have bought some type of meter thing for 3k but without it they charged double. That was why I thought it was in error because of the double charge. I don't really remember the details.
I was out of there in two years to the day.
So.....why are yinz opposing Trump?
He’s the ultimate Federal Spending on Infrastructure guy.
And unlike a Democrat he might actually get it done.
Let them drink drank
They already made work free. Arbeit macht frei.
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