Water related rant, again

Once again, Calgary is under water restrictions as they tie in the new pipeline to replace or supplement the broken old one. This builds off a water post from June 2024, here. This time I remembered to get a photo of our water meter the morning of November 4.So far the city as a whole is under the desired limit. We don't have a lawn or hanging baskets to water now. Navy showers and being mellow about yellow should cut the consumption quite a bit.Today the City announced a proposed budget that would increase our property tax by 15%. (Source here.) I'm cranky about this, but not for the reasons you might suspect.One, the City recently paid the panel chair on the team that reviewed the water main break debacle $1.7 million dollars. It works out to about $1000 an hour. He was probably the best paid person in the entire province during that time. That was out of a total bill of $2.3 million. The rest of the team was paid about $80,000 each. (Source here.) The fee was agreed to by…

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