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DeKalb Community Taps In To Water

On average, Americans spend approximately $4,000 on every 1,000 gallons of bottled water purchased—while the same quantity of tap water costs approximately $1, and it takes three to seven times as much water to produce a bottle of water as it does to fill it up at the tap.  Did you know that Americans use 25 billion single-serve plastic water bottles per year and 20 billion of those end up in landfills?  Did you also know that producing single-serve bottles for American consumption in 2006 required the equivalent of more than 17 million barrels of oil producing 2.5 million tons of ca.... READ MORE18
 
I conserved water, so why are my rates going up?

#Ever since local governments got in the business of supplying water, citizens have generally been happy with the arrangement. They watered their lawns, washed their cars, bathed, and enjoyed clean tap water without a second thought about that water’s source or seeming abundance.

But more recently, water has been a source of citizen discontent for many municipal governments in Georgia. As the Southeast’s lingering drought caused reservoirs to shrink and intensified the Georgia-Florida-Alabama water war, local water authorities urged their customers to conserve, with many imposing us.... READ MORE18
 
   
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