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Environment & Energy

dutch777

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1. Would be a good idea in the US as well. For profit water companies in PA are gouging folks and delivering lousy water.

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Thu Oct 24, 2024, 08:38 AM

Oct 2024

Some local municipalities decided to get out of the water and sewer utility business and thought making a couple of bucks selling off the related infrastructure to for profit companies would be a good idea. 10 years on folks living in those areas have the highest water billing rates in the state and have lousy tasting water to boot. Now they are stuck.

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Would be a good idea in the US as well. For profit water companies in PA are gouging folks and delivering lousy water. dutch777 Oct 2024 #1