Water Rates to Increase for Seventh Straight Year
On September first, the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD), with the full support of the advocate appointed by the Water Rate Board, the body that sets rates, will raise rates again. This will be the 7th consecutive year that PWD has, without public input, negotiated a rate increase with the rate board’s advocate. The effect is […]
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