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A police officer just dropped off our water bill (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world to c/rant@lemmy.sdf.org
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We have lived here for the last 10 years. We always pay our water bill. Occasionally, we'll forget and receive a final notice for our water bill which we will promptly pay.

Tonight at 8 pm, a city police officer banged on our door with a blinding flashlight in hand. Made me verify my identification and then handed me my water bill (the due date being a week from now)

What the hell!

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[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, yeah. Filling a pool would get pricey. We have a sliding scale so pool-havers would pay more to fill a pool.

I think there's an argument to be made to increase the cost just to reduce consumption - the same for power and gas.

I'm not a climate scientist but the predictions for water scarcity in the future are pretty scary. I think that might be more for agricultural uses than drinking water specifically, but still.

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