"...not some cash cow for city hall to use for nicer trappings and life's finer things. Portland Water Bureau has one fucking job, One...to deliver clean, safe water to the residents. Apparently it can do neither, all while billing the recipients some of the highest rates in the country. City Hall, you have no business billing people for something that we cannot live without. Water is a Human Right."
"...not some cash cow for city hall to use for nicer trappings and life's finer things. Portland Water Bureau has one fucking job, One...to deliver clean, safe water to the residents. Apparently it can do neither, all while billing the recipients some of the highest rates in the country. City Hall, you have no business billing people for something that we cannot live without. Water is a Human Right."
Portland Water Bureau fails to provide reliable, clean, and safe water to residents while charging some of the highest rates in the country. City Hall diverts water revenue toward nicer trappings and discretionary expenses instead of ensuring basic service. Consumers are billed for an essential resource that is unreliable and potentially unsafe. Charging high fees for something necessary to life imposes undue hardship and violates principles of human dignity. Water access must be affordable, reliable, and protected from municipal revenue-seeking. Public agencies should prioritize delivering safe drinking water rather than treating the utility as a cash cow.
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