(June 2, 2009, UPI.com)
A Tampa, Fla., couple said it took them several months to resolve the issue of a monthly water bill for more than $21,000.
Ralph and Diana Salgado said their water bill usually falls between $21 and $110 each month, but their July 2008 bill from the Tampa Water Department totaled $21,600, indicating that [...]
The Three Main Difficulties of Submetering Tenants’ Water Consumption for Landlords and Property Managers: Water Conservation Still an Expensive Proposition (LeakBird)There’s an excellent old article from 1997!?! on “submetering water” from the Journal of Property Management that’s surprisingly contemporary in its report, indicating how little has changed with regard to the promising yet cost-prohibitive installation of water meters per individual residential unit.
As I see it, the difficulties of water submetering in property management can be [...]
(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 [...]
(Feb. 5, 2009, Chicago Sun Times)
The Daley administration has broadened its investigation into the mysterious case of that $85,860-a-year city electrical inspector ordered to pay more than five years’ worth of water bills after building a new home without installing a water meter.
The Department of Water Management is conducting an audit to determine how many [...]
(Feb. 6, 2009, The Chronicle-Telegram)
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — Every household in town soon will be getting a WiFi-like hook-up, but it won’t be for surfing the Web.
This technology will allow computer software in City Hall to record the amount of water used in each home, apartment and business and to quickly issue an alert about detected [...]
