LeakBird

(April 29, 2009, The Daily News)
Bronx residents who managed to take time off from work for the afternoon public hearing voiced their opposition to a proposed 14% hike in water rates.
“It’s ridiculous,” said Evelyn Rodriguez, 57. “Don’t we pay enough for everything else? Everything goes up, and now they’re raising our water.”
If the measure is [...]

(April 2, 2009, The New York Times)
New York City residents should brace for another double-digit increase in their water rates, even though they are conserving more water than ever before.
That is the mixed message that residents are likely to hear on Friday, when the New York City Water Board is expected to raise water and [...]

 
I recently came across an insightful 2006 document (pdf) from New York’s Department of the Environment on water/ sewer billing, water metering and water efficiency, put together for New York landlords and property managers.
I know that it’s now three years old, so some of the information is perhaps dated, though in essence I would hazard [...]

(Feb. 2, 2009, LoHud News)
Peaceable Hill homeowners vehemently protesting an “outrageous” increase in their water bills may have found some relief from the town.
More than a dozen residents showed up at a Town Board meeting last week to vent their frustrations about a $167 spike in their quarterly water bills, arguing many people may have [...]

(Jan. 15, 2009, Water Technology Online)
The government of Saratoga County, NY, headquartered here, will decide January 20 whether it will join six communities in the county that are planning to sue the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over what they see as a conflict between an EPA-backed PCB-dredging project in the Hudson River and the [...]

(Oct. 23, 2008, Chicago News beta)

ALBANY, New York, September 2, 2008 (ENS) – New York Governor David Paterson is calling on the federal government to help New York’s municipalities maintain lakes, rivers and streams.
Federal support for water infrastructure has plummeted roughly 70 percent over the last two decades, delaying critical maintenance and contributing to Clean [...]