But, in theory, higher water rates can also help to promote conservation.
Any contamination, they note, would require the investment of billions of dollars in a filtration plant and would result in higher water rates.
He said the program will have to be financed either through higher water rates or at the expense of other city environmental programs, like water main replacement and sewers and sewage-treatment plant improvements.
The leaked plan would be a bonanza for giant corporations, prioritizing projects that raised revenue (toll roads, higher water rates) and giving very little weight to a project's social benefit.
Advocates say that private sector involvement is the only way to meet Texas' growing water needs, but critics worry about how accountable private firms will be to the public, and about the possibility of higher water rates.
Nor do I believe that, even if the people of Indianapolis and the surrounding community have permitted the Water Company to use this stream for a public service, there has been a grant of a prescriptive property right which can be capitalized by the Company, in order to exact higher water rates from the very people who granted the privilege.
Extinction data of liquid pool fires from this study (n-heptane) and previous investigations (gasoline, JP-5) are consistent with the methane data, except for somewhat higher water rates at extinction.
Last year, City Comptroller William Thompson said that if water pollution from fracking in the watershed necessitated filtration, it could mean 30% higher water rates for New Yorkers.
Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti announces support for higher water rates.
Conservation, the story said, was the cause of higher water rates and new fees.
