Why does the water rate keeps increasing, however the water dept has increased revenues each year?

I want to see a massive community effort to stop all new construction FIRST before we raise water rates. Anyone interested in staging a protest/ write -in campaign, etc?

My unit has a cold-water meter in it and I pay for gas. However, my apartment complex bills me for hot water ratio. In addition, when I asked them to explain what it is I was told that the property takes the total consumption of what the city billed vs. the total consumption of the resident consumption to determine the hot water ratio. My bill calculation is below:
12/09/08 my clicks is 16089
11/07/08 my clicks was 15781

So if you subtract the two my water consumption is 308 my meter has a multiplier of 10(gallons) so my total gallons is 3,080 then you multiply the hot water ratio of 4. The total gallon consumption is 12,320 used the Water rate is 0.00302 (12,320 x 0.00302=$31.21) Sewer (12,320 x 0.00574 = 70.72) my total bill comes out to $107.93 for Water/Sewer. I live in GA and cannot find any regulation stating that the property can bill me for a ratio of hot water used. Can someone please explain to me how this determined is??????

These rates were approved by the ratepayors, not the board. The board explained that it would take investment in upgrading our pipes and the ratepayors, including me, didn't object! We raised our rates to afford fewer failures in the future.

With all the financial difficulties San Diego has experienced in the recent years any increase in any fees has to be viewed with the thought of what it's really paying for. When the city council voted, illegally, to increase retirements, modify the rules as to who gets what, based on very little service, they've put a burden on the population that is totally unreasonable. Sure, there's a select few who may find such charges a mere inconvenience. Others may be able to pass it on through their own businesses. But to the LARGE segment of San Diegians on fixed retirement incomes this comes as no minor inconvenience. And, is it for paying the current cost of delivering water and processing sewage, or is it to payoff the City's Debt? Inquiring minds want to know.

I received two of the recent notices of rate increases. One was to me, who is the Water/Sewer billing account holder that is shown on the actual monthly billing statement. The other notice that was delivered to our home contains my first name, my wifes first name and then our last name. I wonder if this is a ploy to dilute the incoming volume of protest mail, thinking that households would only return one in lieu of two or disqualify my vote because "I voted twice"! I understand that around 274,000 notices were sent. The crook politics of San Diego brings this to mind...anybody else get two notices?

Reading this morning's Voice article on Mayor Sanders' suggestion that he may outsource Water & Sewer, in the context of considering the proposed rate increases for Water & Sewer, reminds me of the apartment complex owner who raises rents to improve the revenue stream before putting his building on the market.

this city is just horrible and i can't believe this...it's just horribleness.