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Originally Posted by JSH
You are being asked to water a MAXIMUM of every other day. People in the neighborhood a block over (were I used to rent) water every day. They are required by the HOA to have functional sprinkler systems and keep their yards green all year or pay fines.
That is exactly how my water bill works. We have fixed $17 charge to be connected and then pay by our water usage in 3 tiers. The first tier is $2.76 a CCF Second tier is $4.30. Third tier is $5.83. That doesn't sound like much but a couple of homes on the fancy side of the neighborhood where houses run $750K to $1 million drilled wells this year. Don't know if they are doing it to get around the watering restrictions or cut costs.
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Watering every day is doing it wrong if the goal is a healthy lawn. My grass was green all year watering only every 5 days, and in theory developed a better root system.
Tiered pricing makes sense for conservation and as a progressive tax on the wealthy (and relief for the less wealthy). The lowest tier should allow only the amount the lowest 5% of customers consume, and it should be priced slightly below the actual cost to deliver the water. The poorest people would have the ability to have the most affordable water that way, and others would be incentivised to conserve. From there pricing should get progressively higher up until some maximum. 3 or 4 tiers seems reasonable to me.
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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
Grammer is odd then. Obviously, I took it to be where houses RUN 750k to 1 mill wells. You live in an expensive hood
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I read it that way too initially, then read it again knowing that wasn't right.
Water here is cheap, but it's sewer that the city really gets me over a barrel. I'd be inclined to trench a leach field if I had the property to do it.