writingonthefall OP t1_iu2iglh wrote on October 28, 2022 at 1:51 AM

Reply to comment by HatManJeff in Aquarion a subsidiary of eversource recently aquired my towns public water. I am the only person still furious about this corporations absurd monopoly in CT? by writingonthefall

public town owned

HatManJeff t1_iu2l50n wrote on October 28, 2022 at 2:11 AM

So it looks like you had Torrington Water which was like Aquarian Water an investor owned water company and not owned by the town. At this point only small water companies invested owned and public are on the small side and don’t have the money or the will of the government to spend the money that needs to be spent to upgrade systems to bring them into federal and state compliance. Many times the state will hold the for profits hostage to buy little companies they really don’t want. I live in Florida now and would kill for my water bill to be as low and the quality at high when I was an Aquarian customer

writingonthefall OP t1_iu78vbu wrote on October 29, 2022 at 2:14 AM

Shill away. Eversource has been a problem in this state for many years. They control electric and natural gas already. This level of consolidation by a publicly traded company is suspect.

Shareholders who don't rely on these services will care more about profit than quality especially when they hold a monopoly on basic necessities.