OWASA to Customers: Thanks for Conserving, Now Hand Over the Cash
Posted May 20th, 2008 at 7:35 AM by Donna MartinezWhat do you get when you pitch in and conserve water during a drought? A nice fat bill for your effort. The Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) wants to stick customers with a 25 percent rate hike. You’ll find the information in this News & Observer Orange chat blog.
May 20th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Already before Congress, according to Wired
May 20th, 2008 at 8:59 am
I think Joe posted the above in the wrong thread.
Anyway, good to see that Chapel Hill politicians are just as stupid as the ones we have here in Charlotte. We already had our “y’all conserved water so well that revenues dropped and now we gotta jack the rates to make up the difference” situation.
May 20th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Didn’t take long for Raleigh’s bad idea to reach Chapel Hill. OWASA is probably a little peeved they didn’t think of it sooner.
May 20th, 2008 at 10:09 am
[...] Donna Martinez has the proof of the inevitable step government takes after conservation becomes too successful for the gubmint coffers. [...]
May 20th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Might the post-drought price increase be deemed an (admittedly very rough) market adjustment, in that the pre-drought price of water was, in light of the then-existing reduced supply and high demand, too low?
Granted, however, that, in a free market system, the pricing would have been better and more responsive than under the “government as supplier†system. They are