Pay for rain - or drinking water
At most , only 20% of the water in a home is used for drinking, and another 20% for bathing/showering. The other 20% goes to the toilet, with the rest used for washing, dishwater, watering the lawn and washing the car.
People seem to "want" to pay for drinking water,
but hate the idea that all the RainWater from the sky
has to go somewhere , and involves even more money $$$$$$
The idea of paying more , for rain runoff,
rubs many the wrong way, but it's a huge issue.
Approximately 770 communities across the United States have combined sewer systems. When rainwater is excessive and overwhelms the capacity of the old systems, the combined wastewater and stormwater, gets minimal treatment and is released directly into adjoining bodies of water.
The Environmental Protection Agency [[EPA) estimates between 1.8 million – and 3.5 million people, per year, become ill from recreational contact, such as swimming, with water contaminated by overflows of sewers, which carry sewage to wastewater treatment plants.
Metro Beach is nice during the sunshine - which everyone enjoys - right after it rains hard for a few days, causing combined sewer overflows into the Clinton River - primarily from 12TownsDrain in OaklandCounty. Those cities like Royal Oak, Berkley, Clawson, Madison Heights do not have a true , real, WWTP of their own in Oakland County.
