http://www.styleweekly.com/richmond/trickle-down-city-water-bills-flood-the-poor/Content?oid=1744867 Comments On: Trickle Down: City Water Bills Flood the Poor? by Greg Weatherford en-us Copyright 2013 Style Weekly. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Style Weekly readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Style Weekly. Colby.Rogers@pilotonline.com (Style Weekly Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0400 Fri, 24 May 2013 22:30:00 -0400 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss This would correct the inequity that now exists where the small consumer now pays about 79 % of their total bill in service charges.
This is a question of backward economics so the city financial folks do not have to make reasonable estimates of consumption.
Also the funds that are paid to the City by the DPU are not consistent with the operating practices recommended by national water utilities organizations.
The DUP should be operated as a completely separate financial entity . R. Bedell
Posted by UTICK]]> Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:16:59 -0400 Style Weekly
Why yes, it is.

Green has costs. And Berger's Sierra Club is on the side of increasing them without concern to the poor or anyone else.
Posted by RS]]> Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:50:54 -0400 Style Weekly Posted by City taxpayer]]> Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:25:45 -0400 Style Weekly
petition:

http://www.change.org/petitions/reform-richmond-s-water-rates

The city utility receives $30,217,980 annually in minimum water/sewer service charges at $49,40 per month from the 50,975 residential customers with the 5/8" meter.
Posted by Scott]]> Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:52:27 -0400 Style Weekly