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@extazyti The complaint was that the system is set up in such a way that an average household has, say, 3 people, and is using the water of 3 people, and is asked to pay for the consumption of 3. Larger households can have 5, use the water of 5, and be asked to pay the equivalent usage for 10...

@cedd660 🤣 this is the answer, thank you!

@congtycautruc Fair point. I imagine it would be nice if they had alternate “plans” for larger households, wherein the household can provide evidence of dependents or people living in the house using official ID / proof of address, and then the tier levels are recalculated to represent something...

@polygon I thought this was the same in every state. The water supplier increases the cost of water based on usage in an effort to reduce overall consumption (if you use 150kL in a year, it costs X per kL, if you go over that, it costs 30% more, if you go over the next consumption tier, more...

@cedd660 Appreciate the ideas, thank you. I might actually start with that bucket thing :)

@thewayofholiness I appreciate the response. I suppose my purpose in writing this (other than venting a bit) was on the off chance there were some alternative I wasn’t aware of. I only just became aware of synergy’s mid-day saver plan a year ago for example (a plan where they charge about half...

@7ebenezer7 Wow, how much water are you using? Our water service fee is 40-50 per bill, and usage is in the hundreds. We try to keep consumption to 500l per day and often struggle with that (2 loads of dishes and 1-2 loads of laundry already puts us around 300-400l before even taking a shower or...

@milandulovic Not at all. I want usage tiers calculated on a per person basis rather than per residence. This would continue to discourage overconsumption while also ensuring that when a family adds another child… or grandma and grandpa move in, you’re not suddenly being billed 3x more for THEIR...

Hi, first time poster here. Just looking for some feedback / a sounding board. Or maybe I’m just here to whinge. My partner and I are raising a family of five in WA, on a single salary. It probably goes without saying, but we’re pretty budget conscious. The kids are pretty young, so...