Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Healy and other city officials argued that if Cambridge made the institutional rate too high, universities would find ways to conserve water. This in turn would reduce the amount of water the city sold but would not lower operating expenses, they said...
According to city officials, the proposal, which would take effect January I, would encourage conservation and even out the rate burden. Water use has already been declining over the past 20 years, according to City Manager Robert W. Healy, but he said it is still too high...
Under the proposal, institutions would be charged $0.94 per cubic foot of water, while single families would be taxed at $0.81. Commercial users would pay $0.85 per cubic foot and industrial users...
Healy called the plan "a modest approach" to changing the cost for smaller water users...
...officials added that such a decrease in water consumption could actually cause an increase in the total fees for smaller users, including families...