I always say the same thing about houses. How much do you think houses will cost in 20 or 30 years? Everything is going up fast and soon everything will be unaffordable for most people. A burrito used to be $3.50 10 years ago. Now they’re $10. How much will they be in another 10 years? $17? 😂
@@BillyMartin68prices won't keep going up forever. Civil unrest and complete collapse of society and the Republic as a whole is the natural outcome of late stage capitalism. There is a reason why 70% of the mega rich have already moved out of America
@@BillyMartin68 Everything you people complain about is surface level. You don’t consider how much our world is changing and how it’s affecting the food we eat and countless other factors that cause these problems. Instead, you’d rather blame politics while ignoring the real issues-like the fact that our resources aren’t everlasting. As I’ve mentioned before, our Earth’s resources won’t last forever, no matter how much you cry about the price of a burrito
Shoot I had a $500 bill from a house that sat empty for three months and I had the water shut off on the inside. Absolutely no water usage and the shutoff valve was before the meter so it wasn’t due to a leak.
@@icedwidow my bill is $35 A MONTH but im in a red state my bill in iowa was $40 a month when you have everyone pays the same you pay the same as that 10 million dollar house on the hill blue states are killing there states with rates on everything to pay for the new comers and the ones that just cant find a job keep voting the same and you will keep getting the same thing
41,000 gallons per per month! That's very close to a gallon per minute! Time to audit for water leaks, unless she's running a 24/7/365 laundry. That's TWO years of usage for me!
@@eldebtor6973 I looked at the bill she showed, then went to her water department website to look at the billing method, which includes in this case 3000 gallons as the meter base charge and to verify the units as thousand gallon rather than 100 cubic feet (748.5 gallons) to get the final tally. It's some of what I did as a contractor for clients that had billing spikes. Then I traced to where the problem was a fixed it.
To answer your question the people who own the Colorado river are about 20 families upstream who get rights because of being first to it and using it for agriculture. They farm high water intensity crops like alfalfa and the reason for doing so is and I quote “so that the farmer families can control all the water” they said it themselves on an interview. 20 families control most of it and they consider you someone who doesn’t have water and should wait in line for it. These are about 20 major Californian families farming skyrocketing costs for the rest of us because their ancestors bought land as far upstream as possible knowing the law said they would own it. The way politicians talk about our water supply scares me it’s literally in the law that the underwater reservoirs will probably never run out in our lifetimes so that’s the extent we’ve been monitoring our water only for scientists to find that actually it takes hundreds of thousands of years for those to refill underground. We treat our natural resources like fresh water like it will never run dry and demand is only going up today. It’s literally assumed in the law that those aquifers won’t run out because that would take generations lol when it is in fact running out. And past politicians never mentioned what happens when there’s no water and left it as an us problem. I don’t expect those 20 families to share all that much so get in line with the rest of us.
Residents are encouraged to apply for H.U.G. which will give them $300 a year to help with the water bill? Yet the lady named Rose was charged $700+ for one month, if I understood the bill. So, if that is true, what is $300 for an entire year going to do for her or others?
She used 38,000 gallons of water. That’s a lot of water. Water prices are up a lot in most places including here in Gilbert, AZ. I try to use as little water as possible.
The cost of water, and electricity here in Colorado is outrageous! It's a crime. The companies CEO'S are billionaires, while the rest of us can't even afford groceries, or medication, or health insurance!!! 🤬
A big problem is the "green" energy the electrical companies are required to have. The government mandates it, then the companies get blamed for the cost increase that they were forced to pass on.
They keep blaming the previous infrastructure but residents went to town board meetings and expressed to them that growth was happening to quickly and we didn't have the infrastructure to handle such quick growth. This was a huge issue and our people tried to tell the greedy town board that this would happen but they refused to listen and now we are paying the price! I even spoke at a meeting and I absolutely knew this would happen and I expressed by concern onto deaf ears. Now I am paying 461.00 for water this month.
I watched a video recently on a woman here in Gilbert, AZ. Her bill was nearly $600. She said she can’t sleep because of it. I use as little water as possible. It’s getting ridiculous now.
This is exactly happening in my area with the city planners and they are completely disrespecting the community member's concerns and favoring big business developers instead.
I want to know how a single woman with 2 dogs is using more than 20K gallons of water a month. Her prior bill even makes me go 'huh' at over 7k gallons, the average single person is about 3k per month, so let's say an addition 2k for the dogs, that's 5k gallons.
Infrastructure has 2 cases: 1)Maintenance. That should be in the monthly bill. 2) Improvements needed to cover new housing and business. THAT should be a CONNECTION FEE paid by the developer
The best thing you can do is move away. If the town is so back dated on repairs they wil lend up making it impossible to love there. Get out now...since thr city cant spare anyone to talk to the media... That tells you all you need to know
Get out of Colorado!!! I am caring for my elderly father, but whenever he dies I am OUT!! I have lived here my whole life!! It's disgusting what has happened to this state!!!
I'm in Palmer Lake CO. When I moved into my current home in 1992, with a family of four, my monthly water bill was 25.00. My last bill was 205.00. That's for two of us.
What happened to good journalism? Why didn’t their fine investigation reveal what the cost per unit was to compare to other cities? Why didn’t they make a determination that the cost of the bill wasn’t usage? If it was high usage was it legitimate usage or a leak? I mostly stopped watching the news because of the useless reporting and poor journalism. Do better
Sounds like she either has the water running 24/7 for any little thing which is why it’s so high or she is obviously getting scammed by the company she pays for the water is up charging her
Think it's bad now? With ALL water companies moving to make our water a little safer (it will NEVER remove all the pollutants like oil based solvents and PFAS) and installing filtering systems and RO systems, it will only become higher. In our small rural town in s Colorado, they have to keep drilling new wells to provide water to all the people moving in from out of state (who are wasting our water) because with this many people we are draining the aquifers.
The town is small and secluded...water cost is low in decently size cities for a reason. You spread the fix/maintenance cost to more citizens. These people are paying the cost for having a small town. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
There is a solar farm between Wellington and Severance, I think. Check into how much water is used a day by them. I have dug into the solar and nuclear, meta, and data storage facilities that have been making home. You would be amazed how much water and electricity was said to be used.
I want to know why they have 3.15 gas but in Pueblo it's 3.49?! Also, the water board in Pueble will NOT agree to allowing a payment plan but once in your lifetime, and are the rudest people on the planet!!!
Guys, take it from a Silicon Valley native who lived up and down the west coast until coming to the Mile High City a few years ago. You’re falling into the California land and water mismanagement playbook hook, line, and sinker. Regardless of your political affiliation, if you don’t want 2/3 of the Platte and Colorado Rivers’ drinking water redistributed to fish and wildlife, if you don’t want thousands of acres constantly burning to the ground each year, and if you don’t want to drive 3 hours to work or living in an RV because you can’t afford an apartment near your job, vote everybody currently in power at your township, county, and state level OUT OUT OUT!
We rent in Wellington and our HOA and lease both state we're required to keep our lawn alive but any fees they charge us will be cheaper than if we kept that grass alive
I wonder what truly goes into a $733 water bill (how many showers, loads of dishes, loads of laundry... very interested in what a bill for $733 for water consists of) no CAP no BS what kinda water is actually being consumed in gallons
Everything in this report is subjective. You need to show how many gallons of water each customer is using. Just saying that they “don’t use much water” and have “have cut back” is meaningless. If their bills don’t show the amount of water used (meter reading) that is a big problem.
Almost like having investment firms run public utilities was a bad idea, why did we privatize public utilities? Because that was an actual display of fascism to privatize public services, just so the private business will price gouge consumers.
If what they popped on screen is her bill...that's 38 thousand gallons per month *above* her average winter usage (so, probably a minimum of 40 thousand gallons if winter usage is only 2000 gal/mo). An acre of Kentucky blue grass in Colorado summers needs less than 15 thousand gallons per month.
Yeah that’s a lot of water. I live in Gilbert AZ. I live alone in a 1700 square foot house and my water usage rarely goes over 2000 gallons a month. Usually it’s 1000 gallons a month. My water/sewer bill used to be about $85 a month but recently went up to $103 a month. 38,000 gallons is insane.
Wellington has been having water issues for a couple of years and the explosive housing growth in the area has been known. All new homes are upcharged a couple of tens of thousands to because the cost of new water lines. And the water quality is poor. New housing has been severed because of the water issues.
The statement from the water company about the past management not up to speed on billing used the word "growth". Making it to mean, like news reporter said, to the newer part of town. Changing it from growth to greed would have been more accurate. Plus, with all that snowmelt Colorado gets, I'd think it'd help on water bills. Recently, where I live, residents now pay water, trash, sewer. Management used to pay those utilities. I was very concerned about how much water would be living in a drought state. But the water portion was the least amount at $9-10 a month! The trash pick-up was the most expensive. My first bill, I thought, was a typo on the water amount, so I called the utility company. The water is calculated on overall usage of all households in my small community. The lawn sprinklers are not included. It is still paid by management.
Our base water price was $30 in 2000. Around 2010 it was $50. Now, it’s a little over $100/month. That’s if you use no water. The actual water is cheap. So I use a disguised holding tank. And let them shut it off a few times a year. This avoids all the fees that make it so expensive. The sewer still flows, and the trash still gets picked up. Would need a warrant to find my water tank. Assume more will do this in time.
Maybe the people of Colorado should examine their liberal politics and then start voting conservative. Liberalism destroys two things: The soul and the pocketbook.
the front range of Colorado does not get much annual rainfall, it's in a rain shadow, most of Arizona has a better water sitaution than the front Range of Colorado, the front range was settled on the dry side of the mountains the west side of the mountains is where all the rain and water is at
Here’s a brief economics lesson. As demand goes up and supply goes down, price must rise. Doesn’t matter if it’s widgets or water. And in case you haven’t been paying attention, the supply of water where you live is definitely going down.
You better get used to it. Even now there isn't enough water for everyone. But we keep building in that has to steal water from elsewhere. I remember many years ago. While driving in the San Luis Valley. I saw a sign about Denver and water. When I stopped for gas I asked the clerk about it. And was told about Denver wanting to ship their water over the mountains to Denver. I don't know how that worked out. But I realize that basically Denver would have been stealing water from farmers in a desert. I do know that that is what happened to farmers South of Denver. And the same thing is happening all over the Southerst. The Colorado river has long since failed to flow to the sea. And I believe I heard that Hoover dam is having difficulty keeping enough water in the reservoir. For operations. I don't know THE answer to this problem. But some possible answers are. Stop raise beef, they and especially the crops grown to feed them are very wasteful of water. And even some crops for people require too much water. We act like fresh water and oil are an infinite resource. And climate change is going to made the situation far worse. Sooner or later we are going to have to come up with a solution. Even though at first the solution will probably stealing from poor countries. So we can have our luxury items.
300 a yr in a grant isn't even a drop in the bucket for water reaching 700 to 800 dollars a month. Something not right there. Sounds like someone in the city is ripping them off. They better start pounding the emails and phone lines of their reps about this and start going to city hall meetings etc.
Water demand would not be as high if the U.S. wasn't letting in millions of "un-documented migrants", basically there would not be as many people here to use that water and the price would go go down because lower demand, and cost of operating.
Instead of being a thick skulled M.A.G.A republican who blames immigrants for all of their problems, you should blame the greedy corporations which are at the source of the problem.
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Her bill is not right single woman with 2 small dogs how is it 700+ there’s a problem somewhere
Has to be a leak somewhere.
She used 38x as much water as I did last month. I don’t have dogs though. Maybe they drink a lot?
😂
@@BillyMartin68let's not forget that it's illegal to capture rain water in Colorado
I wonder what the bills will be like with another eight hundred thousand plus people living there in the next ten to fifteen years
I always say the same thing about houses. How much do you think houses will cost in 20 or 30 years? Everything is going up fast and soon everything will be unaffordable for most people. A burrito used to be $3.50 10 years ago. Now they’re $10. How much will they be in another 10 years? $17?
😂
@@BillyMartin68prices won't keep going up forever. Civil unrest and complete collapse of society and the Republic as a whole is the natural outcome of late stage capitalism. There is a reason why 70% of the mega rich have already moved out of America
@@BillyMartin68 Everything you people complain about is surface level. You don’t consider how much our world is changing and how it’s affecting the food we eat and countless other factors that cause these problems. Instead, you’d rather blame politics while ignoring the real issues-like the fact that our resources aren’t everlasting. As I’ve mentioned before, our Earth’s resources won’t last forever, no matter how much you cry about the price of a burrito
Audit the utility
They need a federal investigation.
sounds like hunter joined the water board no need to look into it
Shoot I had a $500 bill from a house that sat empty for three months and I had the water shut off on the inside. Absolutely no water usage and the shutoff valve was before the meter so it wasn’t due to a leak.
@@crosleyman50 hopefully you didn’t pay it
Maybe a break in a pipe underground?
@@michaeljohn7467 multiple peoples homes ?
@@michaeljohn7467 the meter is after the shut off valve so the meter wouldn’t have moved at all.
@@jerrypeal653 I had to when I sold the house.
Someone in the city is pilferring make no mistake. Water should NEVER cost that much
How so? Are you one of those people that think all our natural resources are everlasting?
@@icedwidow no, but what say you about the MASSIVE building of homes EVERYWHERE they can fit them! You know, considering those natural resources.
@@susanbrown2578 not quite sure what you’re getting at? The world needs to stop building these houses. Trees will run out.
@@icedwidow my bill is $35 A MONTH but im in a red state my bill in iowa was $40 a month when you have everyone pays the same you pay the same as that 10 million dollar house on the hill blue states are killing there states with rates on everything to pay for the new comers and the ones that just cant find a job keep voting the same and you will keep getting the same thing
41,000 gallons per per month!
That's very close to a gallon per minute!
Time to audit for water leaks, unless she's running a 24/7/365 laundry.
That's TWO years of usage for me!
where did you get 41,000 gallons from?
@@eldebtor6973
I looked at the bill she showed, then went to her water department website to look at the billing method, which includes in this case 3000 gallons as the meter base charge and to verify the units as thousand gallon rather than 100 cubic feet (748.5 gallons) to get the final tally.
It's some of what I did as a contractor for clients that had billing spikes.
Then I traced to where the problem was a fixed it.
@@eldebtor6973
I looked at the bill shown, and the went to the water provider website, and then did the math.
700????!!! That’s not a spike in cost, that’s financial rape
Who owns the water supply? People need to get involved in politics and vote out politicians not doing the right things.
To answer your question the people who own the Colorado river are about 20 families upstream who get rights because of being first to it and using it for agriculture. They farm high water intensity crops like alfalfa and the reason for doing so is and I quote “so that the farmer families can control all the water” they said it themselves on an interview. 20 families control most of it and they consider you someone who doesn’t have water and should wait in line for it. These are about 20 major Californian families farming skyrocketing costs for the rest of us because their ancestors bought land as far upstream as possible knowing the law said they would own it. The way politicians talk about our water supply scares me it’s literally in the law that the underwater reservoirs will probably never run out in our lifetimes so that’s the extent we’ve been monitoring our water only for scientists to find that actually it takes hundreds of thousands of years for those to refill underground. We treat our natural resources like fresh water like it will never run dry and demand is only going up today. It’s literally assumed in the law that those aquifers won’t run out because that would take generations lol when it is in fact running out. And past politicians never mentioned what happens when there’s no water and left it as an us problem. I don’t expect those 20 families to share all that much so get in line with the rest of us.
Residents are encouraged to apply for H.U.G. which will give them $300 a year to help with the water bill? Yet the lady named Rose was charged $700+ for one month, if I understood the bill. So, if that is true, what is $300 for an entire year going to do for her or others?
Another government program with a bunch of administrators that does very little good.
Investigate the town
The town needs to be investigated and audited!
She used 38,000 gallons of water. That’s a lot of water.
Water prices are up a lot in most places including here in Gilbert, AZ. I try to use as little water as possible.
@@BillyMartin68 She did not. Her meter said she did. Huge difference-
@@infinitetanner
An audit of the water meter will probably show a one gallon per minute LEAK.
@@blaydCA agree-
I'm so sick and tired of these greedy jerks 😡
I remember when officials promoted xeroscaping. Also stop building homes in areas that have no water to begin with.
The cost of water, and electricity here in Colorado is outrageous! It's a crime. The companies CEO'S are billionaires, while the rest of us can't even afford groceries, or medication, or health insurance!!! 🤬
A big problem is the "green" energy the electrical companies are required to have. The government mandates it, then the companies get blamed for the cost increase that they were forced to pass on.
@@OSB911 thats why people should vote NO TO PROGRESSIVE POLICIES.
keep voting for the same people you get the same thing
@@OSB911 sure while they're raking in record profits they're struggling to maintain low prices. Whoops
@@HappyG-e7esource?
I’ve done this for years!
My lawn died and I never gave a crap.
The water companies are gRAPING the people.
They give Las Vegas free water.
Does Vegas really get free water? This is an outrage. I want free water too.
@@anthonymartinez4307
Didn’t know that, I learn something new every day!
@@BillyMartin68
Me too!
Yeah water prices are getting stupid
Growing grass in a desert is stupid.
Blame the democrats
@@AdL629 says the apartment dweller
@@jerrypeal653 I have a house and a yard of rocks I don't have to water. My water bill is $65.
@@AdL629 not in the same area
They keep blaming the previous infrastructure but residents went to town board meetings and expressed to them that growth was happening to quickly and we didn't have the infrastructure to handle such quick growth. This was a huge issue and our people tried to tell the greedy town board that this would happen but they refused to listen and now we are paying the price! I even spoke at a meeting and I absolutely knew this would happen and I expressed by concern onto deaf ears. Now I am paying 461.00 for water this month.
I watched a video recently on a woman here in Gilbert, AZ. Her bill was nearly $600. She said she can’t sleep because of it. I use as little water as possible. It’s getting ridiculous now.
It's called the Growth Machine, and just about every Western city is run by it. The growth elites make the money, you pay the bills.
This is exactly happening in my area with the city planners and they are completely disrespecting the community member's concerns and favoring big business developers instead.
I want to know how a single woman with 2 dogs is using more than 20K gallons of water a month. Her prior bill even makes me go 'huh' at over 7k gallons, the average single person is about 3k per month, so let's say an addition 2k for the dogs, that's 5k gallons.
Wellington had problems with it's water system back in the 80's.
This is happening all over colorado. Im in aurora and ours. Have been on the $300
Yea but we got wolves and immigration is thriving and making housing more abundant.
💙priorities
The residents should all not pay, and when everyone's water gets turned off, go to the town hall to use the bathroom.😅
So this town collects over 2 million a month in water charges. Something isn't right they need investigated
Infrastructure has 2 cases: 1)Maintenance. That should be in the monthly bill. 2) Improvements needed to cover new housing and business. THAT should be a CONNECTION FEE paid by the developer
The best thing you can do is move away. If the town is so back dated on repairs they wil lend up making it impossible to love there. Get out now...since thr city cant spare anyone to talk to the media... That tells you all you need to know
They are out of town in the commuter zone. There is no escape.
Get out of Colorado!!! I am caring for my elderly father, but whenever he dies I am OUT!! I have lived here my whole life!! It's disgusting what has happened to this state!!!
I'm in Palmer Lake CO. When I moved into my current home in 1992, with a family of four, my monthly water bill was 25.00. My last bill was 205.00. That's for two of us.
What happened to good journalism? Why didn’t their fine investigation reveal what the cost per unit was to compare to other cities? Why didn’t they make a determination that the cost of the bill wasn’t usage? If it was high usage was it legitimate usage or a leak? I mostly stopped watching the news because of the useless reporting and poor journalism. Do better
Absolutely. This one sided story fails to dig more than skin deep. It’s designed to boost ratings
Sounds like she either has the water running 24/7 for any little thing which is why it’s so high or she is obviously getting scammed by the company she pays for the water is up charging her
Think it's bad now? With ALL water companies moving to make our water a little safer (it will NEVER remove all the pollutants like oil based solvents and PFAS) and installing filtering systems and RO systems, it will only become higher. In our small rural town in s Colorado, they have to keep drilling new wells to provide water to all the people moving in from out of state (who are wasting our water) because with this many people we are draining the aquifers.
Rewild and forget the sprinklers. God forbid!
How does she get to tier 4? She better get her plumbing checked.
Lazy reporting by news source...no actual investigative journalism done here...
The town is small and secluded...water cost is low in decently size cities for a reason. You spread the fix/maintenance cost to more citizens. These people are paying the cost for having a small town. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
There is a solar farm between Wellington and Severance, I think.
Check into how much water is used a day by them. I have dug into the solar and nuclear, meta, and data storage facilities that have been making home. You would be amazed how much water and electricity was said to be used.
I want to know why they have 3.15 gas but in Pueblo it's 3.49?! Also, the water board in Pueble will NOT agree to allowing a payment plan but once in your lifetime, and are the rudest people on the planet!!!
Huh….so allowing investment firms in NYC and foreign investors to purchase water rights i a bad idea? Hoodathunk?
Guys, take it from a Silicon Valley native who lived up and down the west coast until coming to the Mile High City a few years ago. You’re falling into the California land and water mismanagement playbook hook, line, and sinker.
Regardless of your political affiliation, if you don’t want 2/3 of the Platte and Colorado Rivers’ drinking water redistributed to fish and wildlife, if you don’t want thousands of acres constantly burning to the ground each year, and if you don’t want to drive 3 hours to work or living in an RV because you can’t afford an apartment near your job, vote everybody currently in power at your township, county, and state level OUT OUT OUT!
They won’t - remember people vote based on “muh emotions” and “I just FEEL like…”
Not logic rational etc
Welcome to Colorado.
We rent in Wellington and our HOA and lease both state we're required to keep our lawn alive but any fees they charge us will be cheaper than if we kept that grass alive
I wonder what truly goes into a $733 water bill (how many showers, loads of dishes, loads of laundry... very interested in what a bill for $733 for water consists of) no CAP no BS what kinda water is actually being consumed in gallons
She used 38,000 on something. Maybe she’s got a leak? A big leak.
Everything in this report is subjective. You need to show how many gallons of water each customer is using. Just saying that they “don’t use much water” and have “have cut back” is meaningless. If their bills don’t show the amount of water used (meter reading) that is a big problem.
Almost like having investment firms run public utilities was a bad idea, why did we privatize public utilities? Because that was an actual display of fascism to privatize public services, just so the private business will price gouge consumers.
Greed lives on in Colorado......
If what they popped on screen is her bill...that's 38 thousand gallons per month *above* her average winter usage (so, probably a minimum of 40 thousand gallons if winter usage is only 2000 gal/mo). An acre of Kentucky blue grass in Colorado summers needs less than 15 thousand gallons per month.
Yeah that’s a lot of water. I live in Gilbert AZ. I live alone in a 1700 square foot house and my water usage rarely goes over 2000 gallons a month. Usually it’s 1000 gallons a month. My water/sewer bill used to be about $85 a month but recently went up to $103 a month.
38,000 gallons is insane.
Wellington has been having water issues for a couple of years and the explosive housing growth in the area has been known. All new homes are upcharged a couple of tens of thousands to because the cost of new water lines. And the water quality is poor. New housing has been severed because of the water issues.
$700 wow
Thornton water is ridiculous $300 last month!
Average toilet , 3 gallons a flush , what’s that average out to per flush $ ?
Don't be pathetic, sue them ..
Stand up for yourselves..
The town's budget? Where's the money going?
Funneling funds?
Pet projects?
A statement or pacifier?
Bad past planning?
They can thank Private Equity for that. Bet me money.
Move out and bankrupt the city of their financial money-chest.
This is not just a Colorado problem, I live in the Northeast and my water doubled since last year.
The statement from the water company about the past management not up to speed on billing used the word "growth". Making it to mean, like news reporter said, to the newer part of town. Changing it from growth to greed would have been more accurate. Plus, with all that snowmelt Colorado gets, I'd think it'd help on water bills. Recently, where I live, residents now pay water, trash, sewer. Management used to pay those utilities. I was very concerned about how much water would be living in a drought state. But the water portion was the least amount at $9-10 a month! The trash pick-up was the most expensive. My first bill, I thought, was a typo on the water amount, so I called the utility company. The water is calculated on overall usage of all households in my small community. The lawn sprinklers are not included. It is still paid by management.
Wholly crap, sounds like a racket...
How much is a plastic gallon jug of water at Walmart?
Our base water price was $30 in 2000. Around 2010 it was $50. Now, it’s a little over $100/month. That’s if you use no water. The actual water is cheap. So I use a disguised holding tank. And let them shut it off a few times a year. This avoids all the fees that make it so expensive. The sewer still flows, and the trash still gets picked up. Would need a warrant to find my water tank. Assume more will do this in time.
I knew 30 years ago that the east side of Colorado was growing beyond their ability to supply water. Infinite growth has met limited resourses.
Maybe the people of Colorado should examine their liberal politics and then start voting conservative. Liberalism destroys two things: The soul and the pocketbook.
At that price it would be cheaper for most households to disconnect from the city water, install a storage tank, and truck in water.
lol, having a lawn is privilege. Water has to come from somewhere and it’s not an everlasting resource.
Beulah Colorado charges 116.00 for 500 gallons, extra for additional water. No one here has sprinkler systems
Where I live, here in California, my water bill is only five dollars per month.
Stop giving Las Vegas free water.
Hey man. What are you doing here?! 🤣.
Another reason to grow food not lawns
Wow. Didn't know people were still watering lawns. Duh.
ECCV water company down in centennial area is a rip off too. Paying $70 just in fees.
the front range of Colorado does not get much annual rainfall, it's in a rain shadow, most of Arizona has a better water sitaution than the front Range of Colorado, the front range was settled on the dry side of the mountains the west side of the mountains is where all the rain and water is at
How much water is she using and what are the rates? Unfortunately water is super expensive… its kept artificially low to help farmers.
I live in the lower part of Alabama almost on the Fl/AL border and have a well with excellent water . Cost is ZERO .
The town of English Indiana does the same thing even if you own your house your water bill will be $600 per month
Here’s a brief economics lesson. As demand goes up and supply goes down, price must rise. Doesn’t matter if it’s widgets or water. And in case you haven’t been paying attention, the supply of water where you live is definitely going down.
You better get used to it. Even now there isn't enough water for everyone. But we keep building in that has to steal water from elsewhere.
I remember many years ago. While driving in the San Luis Valley. I saw a sign about Denver and water. When I stopped for gas I asked the clerk about it. And was told about Denver wanting to ship their water over the mountains to Denver. I don't know how that worked out. But I realize that basically Denver would have been stealing water from farmers in a desert. I do know that that is what happened to farmers South of Denver. And the same thing is happening all over the Southerst. The Colorado river has long since failed to flow to the sea. And I believe I heard that Hoover dam is having difficulty keeping enough water in the reservoir. For operations.
I don't know THE answer to this problem. But some possible answers are. Stop raise beef, they and especially the crops grown to feed them are very wasteful of water. And even some crops for people require too much water. We act like fresh water and oil are an infinite resource. And climate change is going to made the situation far worse. Sooner or later we are going to have to come up with a solution. Even though at first the solution will probably stealing from poor countries. So we can have our luxury items.
There is no way in hell that a water bill would cost 700 to 800 dollars a month. The town is ripping off the residents pure and simple, period.
i am married and have 5 kids. Our water bill was $122 last month. Come to NC.
Glad i live in the country on a solar powered well water system ZERO COST
My bill in Philadelphia is $60 a month and I let it run! Colorado has some messed up water laws!
300 a yr in a grant isn't even a drop in the bucket for water reaching 700 to 800 dollars a month. Something not right there. Sounds like someone in the city is ripping them off. They better start pounding the emails and phone lines of their reps about this and start going to city hall meetings etc.
Good thing the air is free.
Carbon reduction is about paying for air.
the fact that colorado just over filled their reservoir from all the rain and this is happening is ridiculous. investigate
Choosing not to water your lawn! Oh the humanity
Call Boulder ground water systems. They'll get you your own well pump systems truly the best of the best!
My water is free. FREE. Stay in Denver. If I need to fill up my 500 gallon water tank for any reason in town, it’s .75 cents for every 250 gallons.
Water demand would not be as high if the U.S. wasn't letting in millions of "un-documented migrants", basically there would not be as many people here to use that water and the price would go go down because lower demand, and cost of operating.
Instead of being a thick skulled M.A.G.A republican who blames immigrants for all of their problems, you should blame the greedy corporations which are at the source of the problem.
"undocumented migrants" would have FIXED the leak or problem rather than WASTE 41,000 gallons per MONTH!
Get what you vote for...
You think voting matters. Lol
High prices happen in conservative cities too.
@@TheBlueThirdcould you please give me a RUclips video suggestion to see what you mean?
Monument Colorado our bill was $800. RIDICULOUS
I won’t complain about my $50 bill again
In Oklahoma I pay 20 Dollars for first 1000 gallons ! Each additional 1000 gallons is 22 Dollars! Wow I'll sell you my water
Holy smokes! That is terrible. Even Phoenix private water in Anthem was 360 a month.
I feel like rose needs to learn about the sponge bath. If she can afford a sponge or a bucket.
In California I had a $800 electric bill
Maybe they should live somewhere where it rains regularly.
So much for buying a new lawn mower just put in rocks.
Drill a well. I can pump all the water I want just for what it cost to run the pump.
They need to potest. This is not feastable. Its a horror story.
I'd have a swimming pool w filter too roof; too house and say please turn off my water ;.
Liberal news!!!!!!! WAS ONLY....$250 A MONTH LAST YR......WTF. WHATS WRONG WITH YOU
Go 2 the Wellington water department parking lot n c who is driving the nicest car 🤨
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