I just got my water bill for next year. £515.64 ($711). This covers all the water coming in as well as all that leaving.
I wondered how that compares with people in other countries.
That’s not bad, I paid $1068 over the last year for water and sewage here in SW Michigan. And damn it we are surrounded by the largest fresh water supply in the world here (the Great Lakes). What gives?
Water/sewer for our triple decker (3 households) runs around $2000/year.
Water and sewage here in the rainy PNW costs me about $400 a year. I use to live in an area served by a small water co-op, water alone was about $1500 a year there.
At home we have a well and septic tank, so $0.
At work I’m billed monthly. Yearly totals for water/sewage is around $1200.
You never have to clean out your septic tank? When I had one, I recall it costing something like $500 every 3 or 4 years. I’ve never had a well so I don’t know if there are recurring costs associated with that.
On septic, not sewer. My water is usually <$20/mo. And I’ve lived here 17 years and have never had my septic pumped. But it’s just me, so that makes a difference.
How many people have garbage collection in their water/sewer bill? I don’t, because no sewer and I live out in the middle of nowhere.
StG
Heh, when I moved in with my gf (her house) I asked at some point when the septic tank was last emptied. She’d been here ~20 years and it had never been touched. But yeah, every 3-5 years is average to get it pumped out.
Our well pump burned out last year and it was ~$300 to replace it.
We run around $500-600/ year for water and we’re on septic for waste. We have the only well for several miles but unless we redrill it is non-functional. I’m thinking about getting it redrilled for an orchard I want to put in.
Over here, rubbish is collected by the local council and paid for in local taxes.
I send them 1 to 2 hundred dollars every time they send me mail and then they don’t send me mail for 3-4 months.
I think it’s 23.15 and month base for 7,500 gallons. .056 per hundred gallons after that.
Our water tax is very low: $75 a year. Used to be $25.
But we have no sewers, just septic. Costs a couple of hundred to clean them every few years.
Garbage is picked up by commercial companies; we’re having a bit of a war between haulers. I’m currently paying $20 a month.
Ugh, my water bill has become outrageous. In the last ten years, it’s gone from a few hundred to over $1300/yr. I live alone and don’t use much water, honest. I’m unmetered so the city comes up with an ever increasing number to charge me based on my house and lot size.
Probably ought to have a water meter installed, right? Well, no, turns out the City of Chicago has suspended new meter installs. It seems the installation process kicks up a ton of toxic sediment from the city-mandated (until 1986! Plumbers’ lobby for the win!) lead service pipes. So I have to pay and pay and can’t do anything about it. I doubt I’ll get a new service line any time soon.
AND, starting Jan 2021, they have switched from a twice a year bill paying structure to monthly. So, ‘for my convenience,’ I have to get ripped off twelve times a year instead of twice. Can’t fight City Hall.
Ugh! Don’t get me started! I’m at war with the Water Assholes. I’ll tell ya later, when I calm down some.
I guess I’m lucky. Our last annual bill was for $240 CAD.
My water and sewerage bills for a whole year amounted to R2250, which is approximately $150 US. This is in Cape Town, a city which experienced a major water crisis over the last few years. This is metered, though my building (of 12 flats) only has one meter so really I’m paying based on the average usage of all my neighbours. No garden or pool so it’s just basic household consumption.
Middle of the desert here and I am pretty “wasteful” because I water my plants and trees and even gasp maintain a small clover patch. Water averages 150 a month.
So, big variations and there seems to be no correlation between scarcity and price.
We have to pay 3 water bills every month: A fee from our city, a fee from our suburb, and a separate sewer fee. As many times as this has been explained to me, I still don’t understand it.
We’re $85 a month, combined water/sewer. $100 in the summer, I have an extensive garden.