Water Rates Rise Again with Little Explanation
If you have opened September’s water bill, you might be thinking Yogi Berra was right: “It’s Déjà vu all over again.” For the eighth year in a row, the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) has raised our bills. This time it’s been raised 7.5%, more than twice the increase in labor costs and 2.5% more than […]
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