Moscow water policy

[john pool <jpool@moscow.com>]

I can't agree with the notion that the city not have a minimum monthly
water system payment. Seems to me that there needs to be some minimum level
of payment in place to pay for meter reading and the cost associated with
maintaining records of users.

If the city were to charge for every gallon used, as a visioneer has
suggested, does it not make sense to also have a certain minimum charge for
the cost of the billing procedure in addition to the actual water charge?

And what of public-safety uses of water, such as extinguishing a house
fire? Who pays that bill?

John Pool 
John S. Pool
jpool@moscow.com
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