Bill

Blog 83 ...

Surprise, good and bad, comes my way when I am not asking for it. Take for instance, a water bill!  I have not given thought about water bills for a long time having lived down countryside for years, and having been supplied water from my own well.  Paying for city water resource to fulfill my present home's basic use is a necessity, but paying for its safe delivery is quite something else to figure.  Has anyone else besides me, actually looked at a city water bill lately, and scrutinized what it charges?  My awakening surprise: a base fee of $6.95, a sewer processing for $18.49, storm water charge for $5.20, and an environmental fee for $9.35.  Add my $14.95 month’s consumption, and behold … a whopping final charge of $54.41!  Conserving ‘liquid gold’ is indeed a must, but getting it to flow from the city’s reservoir is a much larger cause for serious pause and thought .  Ponder that!