(June 2, 2009, TriValleyCentral)
The company, which in Pinal County serves Casa Grande, Coolidge, Arizona City, Stanfield and other areas, has asked the Arizona Corporation Commission for approval to raise its general rates for a base revenue growth of about 35 percent.
The request was filed last year and a hearing is scheduled for Aug. 31 [...]
(June 3, 2009, WBALTV Channel 11)
The Baltimore City Board of Estimates voted Wednesday on a 9 percent increase to water and sewer rates, meaning the average family of four will pay about $72 more per year.
The system leaks 20 percent of its water each day, which is enough to fill the World Trade Center in [...]
(April 21, 2009, News4Jax)
JEA is proposing a 10 percent increase in its water and sewer rates in each of the next four years while also changing the way fees are structured.
The city-owned utility said the rate increase is needed to pay for loans taken to acquire and improve the water system from the city and [...]
(Feb. 18, 2009, The Dallas Morning News)
Plano water and sewer customers should expect rates to rise by an average of 16 percent starting next month.
The increases, the fifth round of hikes since spring 2006, will help pay for more expensive treatment, pumping and expansion costs in [...]
(Feb. 19, 2009, MSNBC)
CLEVELAND – Thousands of people in the Cleveland area are facing huge bills for water they claim they didn’t use.
Water bills for more than $1,000 are arriving at local homes, putting a major strain on families already stressed by the economy, reported NewsChannel5’s Duane Pohlman.
Jill Laverdiere got a bill from the city [...]
(Jan. 31, 2009, Portland Water Bureau)
Portions of the Missouri River’s bed from Nebraska to Missouri are sinking, causing the future of the river as a drinking water source to come into question.
At this point, the US Army Corp of Engineers can’t figure out exactly why the river bed is sinking, but theories include:
impacts from commercial dredging
upstream dams that reduce the [...]
