We have lived here for the last 10 years. We always pay our water bill. Occasionally, we’ll forget and receive a final notice for our water bill which we will promptly pay.
Tonight at 8 pm, a city police officer banged on our door with a blinding flashlight in hand. Made me verify my identification and then handed me my water bill (the due date being a week from now)
What the hell!
Hmm, looks like it’s 5CAD/m3 here, and another 2CAD for sewerage. There’s a hint on the bill that it might get higher if you’re a big consumer, but I don’t actually know. (1kL = 1m3)
You’re right, it’s not huge, but if you own a swimming pool I imagine it can still add up. My friend who’s a seasoned municipal worker says it’s way lower than what it should be, too, although I can’t confirm that’s a numerically informed position.
The provisioning of free landfilling and free roads and parking definitely has had unfortunate side-effects, at least.
Oh, yeah. Filling a pool would get pricey. We have a sliding scale so pool-havers would pay more to fill a pool.
I think there’s an argument to be made to increase the cost just to reduce consumption - the same for power and gas.
I’m not a climate scientist but the predictions for water scarcity in the future are pretty scary. I think that might be more for agricultural uses than drinking water specifically, but still.