Sentence examples for water payments from inspiring English sources

Because a long drought has reduced some reservoirs to less than 12percentt of capacity, Mexican officials say, they have been in arrears on their water payments since 1992.

Now, the few Detroiters who are still lucky to have a place to live are paying increasingly higher rates for water, and in the down economy of Detroit, many have fallen behind on water payments.

Even after the big industries made a profit by shipping jobs overseas, and the big banks made a profit by swindling people out of their homes, Detroit's corporate-owned government won't allow people owing as little as $150 in water payments to have access to a basic human right.

Accommodations: $650 Fully furnished one-bedroom apartment with electricity and water payments Transportation: $200 Moped rental, gas, and taxis Food and Drinks: $800 Groceries, street food, and restaurant dining Schooling: $700 Full-time international school for our two kids Leisure: $150 Shopping and sightseeing TOTAL: $2,500.

Importantly, a positive dose response relation with water consumption was reported only in tap water consumers in malfunctioning systems; participants with POU-treated water (Payment et al. 1991, 1997) or those not exposed to water outages (Nygård et al. 2007) did not show evidence of increasing GII with increasing water consumption.

He said the owners also owed the city more than $2 million in back taxes and about $600,000 in overdue water bill payments.

Today, an estimated 40% of all water bill payments made by cash-strapped Detroit residents go toward paying off a 2012 $547 million penalty charged by Goldman Sachs and other banks for terminating interest-rate-swaps.

These include bills that come on a regular basis: electric or gas, insurance, mortgage, water, loan payments, and other monthly bills.

This study uses a transaction cost framework, in conjunction with detailed case studies of two water quality payment schemes, to examine factors that increase and decrease transaction costs in order to improve policy choice as well as policy design and implementation.

Not to mention the security of this approach: The WAP caps water utility payment at 2.5percentt of monthly income -- what the federal government views to be the affordability threshold.

Since then, mobile payment services have blossomed in sub-Saharan Africa, with water companies using payments services including M-Pesa, Airtel Money, and MTN Mobile Money.