As you may know, we in Georgia have been in a drought for over two years now. For most of that time we have been under level 3 and 4 water restrictions. It took awhile for people to get on board with the measures, but in the end the Atlanta metro area has cut its monthly water use between 12 and 26%.
That's a good thing right?
Well, apparently all our water conservation has caused a projected budget deficit for the Water System authorities. To remedy this shortfall they plan on raising the water and sewer fees roughly 38% this fall!
Now this is really hard for me to swallow, as we (my family) have basically cut our consumption rate in half from what it was four years ago. We are already paying $54 a month for 4,000 gallons... maybe this is cheap to some of you, but compared to our $12 water bill in Minnesota its already highway robbery!
The lowest pricing tier here covers consumption between 0 - 9,000 gallons, so basically we are paying the same rate as some people who uses TWICE as much water as we do.
Grr! It is so crummy to be penalized for doing the right thing!
*insert grumpy emoti-con here*
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