Let’s talk about a real racket that City’s and towns across America employ to make ever greater increases in income. What could that be you ask? Good question. We recently got a flyer in the US mail extolling the virtues of keeping the lawn green and the other plantings “full of water”. Same day we received another little thing in the US mail called . . . Utility bill.
Seems that if we were to increase the amount of water we use well we get charged extra. So the city of Portland Oregon seeks to increase the amount of income by placing a higher premium on the very water used. And they even enclosed a little flyer about conserving water, right nice of them.
This is a racket then to wrest even more money from the population, yet the cost of water production for Portland does not increase. Portland does not have a fresh water treatment plant as such. It is pure and al natural. Which explains why my water filter under the kitchen sink is full if algae and moss. Sure I can change it but why bother, as it will just fill up again.
So I am doing my part, letting my lawn die a slow death, mowing the weeds to keep things neat and buying in wholesale into water conservation.
Yep, use not pay not. That’s how I see it.
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