Comments on: What’s Your Yearly Water Bill?

By: Marye

Marye — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:24:44 +0000

I Know. Imagine if I was not a total freak about water use?

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:35:27 +0000

Marye, that’s totally insane! We pay about $230 a year – but I could likely save more. One green thing we don’t do nearly as often as we could is reuse water – like bath or shower water for plants, etc.

By: Julie F

Julie F — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:12:13 +0000

We pay around $350 a year. The prices here range from totally nuts, like Marye’s, to pretty normal, like ours. It changes literally by neighborhood.

I grew up with wellwater, so I looked at our first water bill like an idiot for a bit before asking my husband what the heck it was for.

By: Peggy

Peggy — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:34:35 +0000

Maybe I should have talked about my water bill too — It was $4.89 last month, but that doesn’t count sewage and garbage. My bill breaks it down. Altogether for trash/pest/water/sewer I pay about $19 each month. It varies by a dollar or so. I think I may be lucky with having good quality water at affordable prices here.

Marye, I can’t imagine paying that much! I hope the city cleans up their act for you.

Wendy, I was saving the water displacement trick for another post, but yes — that’s a great way to get around buying a new toilet just for water savings. I think models before 1994 are the ones that are less efficient.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:13:51 +0000

I dont want to run out and buy new toliets so I compromised…I put 2 bottles of water in the tanks of my toilet to use less water.
I also use bath water( I use natural products) to wter flowers and veggies

By: Marye

Marye — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:32:38 +0000

O.k..here is a rant.
The cost of water/sewer in our area is outrageous.
I pay nearly 200.00 a month.
Now, you all KNOW that I am a freak about carbon footprints, being green, conserving natural resources….and I have been a freak about it since it was not cool.
Our city has over developed along our creek, causing lots of run-off and flooding. A few yearsa go they decided that everyone should pay a storm drainage fee..This is suppposedly to help defray the costs of dealing with the floods that happen often.
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The water runs us about 75.00 a month
What is the rest?
Sewage fees and garbage fees.
We do not take daily showers, we water the garden with water collected from rain water, the stale water from the animals which is changed daily, and even by collecting the half glass of water that someone left on the counter. We use graywater.
DOing that I still pay close to 2,400 a year in water. MORE than I pay in electricity OR Natural Gas.
Our city is stupid.
Thank you for listening.