minimum billing amount comparable to the old flat rate--except it covered only the first 2000 gallons per billing interval (where a billing interval is defined by when the city decides to read the meters, approximately every three months). Now in effect we have a flat-rate system with a penalty for using more than a nominal amount of water. Of course, the idea all along was (retroactively) to encourage water conservation and had nothing to do with increasing the city's income...
Not to get too far afield, but I pay $0.12 (right twelve cents) per gallon for water here. Let me tell you, it makes me very conscious of saving water!
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