It is more complicated than that. Funding must be identified for future capacity as well as current or new users will be shut out. So we added a modest increase in the new capacity of the new plant. Also, when the state and federal government shut down those grant funds, they left municipal systems hanging out there, most of them not even aware of it. This is a recipe for public health disasters. If those municipal systems fail while the operators chase funding/financing sources, many people will be at risk of some serious diseases. Finally, what predictable waste did I report?
Thank you, Mark Snyder -----Original Message----- It reads to me that the problem was as you identified it: "Connection and availability fees were too low." If you charge what it actually costs then polities have a greater incentive to build only what they need, and users have an incentive to be much more frugal in their use. If you subsidize costs, you get predictable waste. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
