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lgmorrow t1_j0itf18 wrote

752,000 gallons a day........what do the citizens pay for water??? and what is google paying for their daily usage???

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[deleted] t1_j0iwlat wrote

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Xanthelei t1_j0iyexs wrote

Both the proposed new centers would be using water from the city water treatment plant, even if this one doesn't. Any increase in treatment costs should be sent to Google alone, not the citizens who aren't being given a choice in if these centers come to their city, seeing how the city council voted in favor before the public got to know the current water costs of just one. Meaning citizens couldn't bring their concerns up before the vote.

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Joe_Biren t1_j0k2e7s wrote

If most of the cost of my water usage is for the wastewater treatment, why don't they gauge that?

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poopsquisher t1_j0k3exw wrote

Because it's very easy and cheap to put a flow meter on your clean, full water pipe running into your house.

It's a royal pain in the rear maintenance nightmare to have thousands, tens of thousands, or in some cases hundreds of thousands of flow meters operating on much larger, partially filled pipes that can be carrying a wide variety of liquid and solid material running out of the houses for each sewer district. Far, far more expensive to purchase those meters and then to maintain them.

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