[skyguy79]

Originally Posted by applesoffh

really, we're paying for water twice - when it's potable and again when it's reclaimed for outdoor use only. My understanding is that not everyone in TV is twice billed for water usage, but that the potable water rate is higher, but I won't swear to anything I hear or read anymore...

Paying for water twice? I'll presume you're referring to the delivery systems needed and not the water itself. The one of the only circumstances that I've ever personally heard of where the taker of water was attempting to be billed for the water itself is when tankers from South America would travel to the Hudson River, fill their tanks and return the water to South America. The State of New York would try to get them to compensate New York for those resources. I know there are others, like when one municipality buys a water supply from another or even with transfers between states, but I don't know about here in TV.

As far as I know of in TV, the water authorities have expenses for the infrastructure needed to get water from the source to the user, and that would include for both potable and reclaimed systems. It would therefor stand to reason that to accomplish the delivery of safe and adequate supplies of water in two separate systems, that we would be billed for both of these systems based on usage and not just for one of them! Anyway, that's why it may seem like we're paying twice!