When I read what people nationally pay for water and sewer, it's about $50-60/month. With us, it's $69. We have solid waste with yardwaste pickup, and pay $33 month for that. So we pay over $100/month. Average consumption a day was 107 gallons for three people. Per capita 60 gallons is average. So we're saving water, but paying over $100/month for this... we have a low-flow toilet, watersaving clothes washer, watersaving dishwasher. Only thing I can think of is that when we're trying to be nice to the natural gas company and keep the temps at 64-66F during the day in winter, we take long hot showers and soaks. And I'm drinking much more water and tea.
We're paying $8.98/CCF for sewer and $3.50/CCF for water. Sioux Falls citizens pay $2.56/CCF for the same usage we have.
The residential bill here, on average, is about $240 for two months. It went up 22% over two years. We will be very lucky to see bills under $200. I think I'll put up signs like 'if it's yellow let it mellow' and take the Dr. Bronner-style bath of sponging the body with a gallon of water and Dr. Bronner's liquid castile soaps. More ways to save water
Just got off the phone with Comcast sales flunkie who wanted to upsell the Comcast service we have for higher speeds. I told him I wasn't interested in spending more days without food for the purpose of giving Comcast more money. I told him I was pissed about doing everything I could afford to bring down energy usage in my house: 11% water, 33% natural gas, but rates went up even higher, and didn't need to be making conscious decisions to have more money escape our house without a return on investment. When he asked what we used the service for I answered for my husband's vendor/outsource work which his multinational corporation decided it was too poor to pay for itself. I love that these calls are monitored, and I love that these soulless drones and managers are oblivious to consumers' sufferings and increased bills. The next time some drone says "I understand" I'm going to ask him or her about his or her credit debt, or if "I understand" is written in their script which they must carefully copy.
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