(May 20, 2009, KGW Channel 8)
Proposals to increase water and sewer rates were introduced at Wednesday’s meeting of the Portland City Council.
Under the proposal, water rates would increase 17.9 percent, or about $2.76 per month for the average household.
Sewer rates would increase 6.5 percent, or about $3.02 [...]
(May 5, 2009, The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
San Luis Obispo residents could soon pay more for water and sewer services.
A typical family of four’s water bill could go up 12 percent this year, and an additional 11 percent in 2010, according to city water division Manager Gary Henderson.
The current rate of $47.15 for a household [...]
(Jan. 19, 2009, RiverWired)
I recently saw a study that looked at how many people buy bottled water for drinking at home, and what it costs them. The results were insane. There are folks paying up to $8 per gallon for water!
Are you guilty? If you’re only buying bottled, you just might be, even if you’re [...]
(Jan. 11, 2009, Kearney Hub)
Irrigation water supplies and costs rated high in importance in a September 2007 survey by two University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension specialists. It also showed that few irrigators are using new irrigation management technologies that can save water and money.
Alan Corr, an Extension educator specializing in water and cropping systems [...]
