Water Bill

I nearly fell out of my seat this morning when I opened our electric/water bill from the City of Austin.   How could our water bill be SO high?  I’ve watered the yard less–at least our yard still looks half dead.  We’re using low flow toilets and 1 gal/min aerators on all the sinks our precious water-wasting children use.  We don’t have water leaks. We have the 5 minute shower, 2 inch bath rule down pat! How could this be?  We’ve had a couple of guests this month, but SURELY they did not use 10,000 gallons worth of water!!

Well, I just had to check our meter.  And sure enough, although the reading on our bill according to the CoA for September 29, was 9170, when I checked it today, it only read 9134.  Which means, the CoA and its employees are not infalliable in taking the meter readings.  The city is going to correct our bill and “hopefully” it’ll all even out with the next bill.  I’ll let you know how that goes.