Well, to be fair, 195% didn't seem like quite enough while 200% seemed excessive.

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Or you could call it "paying for what you get."

An extra $20 a month for clean, safe drinking water? The horror!

Civilization has a cover charge. Don't like it? Vote with your feet and go live in a cave.

Winona Daily news is on a tear.... two greenlights today!

co-conspirator: Or you could call it "paying for what you get."

An extra $20 a month for clean, safe drinking water? The horror!

Civilization has a cover charge. Don't like it? Vote with your feet and go live in a cave.


Well said. They are digging new wells because the old ones were producing water with unsafe levels of nitrates. That costs money, which has to be split between the people using the water.

There's no well fairy.

It takes a village ...

... to fark the villager

Knows the value of water

The "stupid" headline is "well" fitting...

mmmm nitrates!

piss water

co-conspirator: Or you could call it "paying for what you get."

An extra $20 a month for clean, safe drinking water? The horror!

Civilization has a cover charge. Don't like it? Vote with your feet and go live in a cave.

Thank you. We pay nothing close to what the price of water should be. Maybe if the rates were higher everywhere people would be more economical with the worlds most valuable resource.

Big deal! Here in Bensenville, Illinois, the village passed a bond ONLY for small businesses (because 'businesses don't vote').

Instead of $22.50/month for sewer and water, there's an additional $238 surcharge on every bill each month, for the next ten years.

Yes, our small business of 5 employees now has to pay $2500 per year extra while a business of 100 employees pays the same. Fair, huh!

Likwit: Maybe if the rates were higher everywhere people would be more economical with the worlds most valuable renewable resource.

The other half of the truth sucks for your argument.

/the water ain't the expensive part
//it's the sanitation and delivery

Utility companies suffer when people conserve.

Mmm electrolytes!

/brawndo water

co-conspirator: Or you could call it "paying for what you get."

An extra $20 a month for clean, safe drinking water? The horror!

Civilization has a cover charge. Don't like it? Vote with your feet and go live in a cave.

This. The headline makes it sound like this is an arbitrary increase, when there is a legitimate reason. It sucks to pay more but that is what these things cost.

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Finally saw that movie last night. It kinda sucked compared to Casino Royale.

Likwit: Thank you. We pay nothing close to what the price of water should be. Maybe if the rates were higher everywhere people would be more economical with the worlds most valuable resource.

Odd words coming from the state which SELLS it's water at ridiculous prices ...

co-conspirator: Civilization has a cover charge. Don't like it? Vote with your feet and go live in a cave.

Why should I move to Michigan?

I don't have a problem with people who use lots of water to pay for lots of water.

The problem is that if utilites are expensive in one area, and cheap in the adjacent area, where do you think people and business are going to move to?

Speaking of conserving water - I have a high efficiency furnace and humidifier that produce about 20 gallons (70 liters) of water a day, that is currently being pumped upstairs and down a drain. Any suggestions on what to do with it that is cheap?

Space isn't an issue, but cost is. I'd like something that has automatic overflow detection so that if the barrel or tank or whatever gets full it will automatically drain without making a mess. It would be handy for landscaping (though I currently don't water and seem to have pretty drought tolerant landscaping, at least what survives).

CommiePuddin: The other half of the truth sucks for your argument.

/the water ain't the expensive part
//it's the sanitation and delivery

Not everywhere. Water is running out in a lot of places. Fresh water is getting scarce, and not just in the desert Southwest.

FTFA: Two new deep wells and a plant to treat the water would increase charges for residential customers using 4,100 gallons of water a month from $12.22 to $36.50, according to the PSC letter. That would be in addition to an estimated 208 percent increase in the public fire protection charge. (emphasis mine)

So, now they're paying 0.0089 per gallon instead of $0.0029? The horror! I kill for water at less than $.01/gallon.

/starts digging a well

This is a deep subject, somebody should get to the bottom of this

If they can't be bothered to go to public meetings that concern their cost of living, screw 'em.

Smeggy Smurf: This is a deep subject, somebody should get to the bottom of this

Who would be willing to dive into this situation?

*Rolls Dice*

Comonnnnn Winona trifecta! (Ryder or news, doesn't matter.)

Mnemia
CommiePuddin:
/the water ain't the expensive part
//it's the sanitation and delivery

Not everywhere. Water is running out in a lot of places. Fresh water is getting scarce, and not just in the desert Southwest.

My guess from the other side of the world is that they have enough water, but that it's a village with lots of farming around it and they now get the bill (quite literally) for the (over)usage of fertilizer.

autothing: Big deal! Here in Bensenville, Illinois, the village passed a bond ONLY for small businesses (because 'businesses don't vote').

Instead of $22.50/month for sewer and water, there's an additional $238 surcharge on every bill each month, for the next ten years.

Yes, our small business of 5 employees now has to pay $2500 per year extra while a business of 100 employees pays the same. Fair, huh!

Time to move to shelbyville.

winona? what ever happened to winona's big brown beaver?
/primus
//les claypool

Yuk. I have been on the receiving end of this nonsense before but it is usually done by putting flat fees on everyone's bill before they start calculating your usage. I could be gone for a month and still rack up a $45 water bill using no actual water.
Meanwhile the neighbors automated watering system is running daily in the rain and people are refilling their pools constantly.

DISAPPROVES

/RIP Patrick
//Be seeing you

autothing: Big deal! Here in Bensenville, Illinois, the village passed a bond ONLY for small businesses (because 'businesses don't vote').

Instead of $22.50/month for sewer and water, there's an additional $238 surcharge on every bill each month, for the next ten years.

Yes, our small business of 5 employees now has to pay $2500 per year extra while a business of 100 employees pays the same. Fair, huh!

And I'll bet a company of 10,000 is exempt b/c they are too "valuable to the community."

Life isn't cheap. Water isn't free. This is not a big deal.

Likwit: co-conspirator: Or you could call it "paying for what you get."

An extra $20 a month for clean, safe drinking water? The horror!

Civilization has a cover charge. Don't like it? Vote with your feet and go live in a cave.

Thank you. We pay nothing close to what the price of water should be. Maybe if the rates were higher everywhere people would be more economical with the worlds most valuable resource.

AAACCCCKKK It is only a precious commdity in dry areas, Northeast Ohio will NEVER run out of water unless global warming turns us to a desert climate. if you live in an area with regular rainfall, water is not a precious resource, It is a burden. $32/month isn't a bad price for self sustained water (not piped in from a big city)

zippythechimp: Life isn't cheap. Water isn't free. This is not a big deal.

I hear they have this new thing. They call it rain. Water actually falls from the air and you can collect it yourself. Free water man! Free freaking water! Get with the program

move

I like the part of the article where the city coucil had an open meeting and none of the residents showed up.

Plenty of good water around if you morons quit breeding like rats and you corporate polluters get long prison terms.