The city of West Palm Beach last year pumped untreated water on the well fields and then used that mix for our water supply. Not long thereafter we had a boil water order placed on the supply for at least a week to two with free chlorine being pumped into the system for months. The city of course had no idea that the treatment would cause a flurry of bursting copper pipes throughout the city as the chlorine ate up the corrosion inside the pipes resulting in thousands of dollars of loss to city homeowners.

At the same time we had been under mandatory once a week watering restrictions and the first of this year we were rewarded for our conservation efforts by getting a 35% rate increase placed on water and stormwater usage. Revenues from taxes went down due to less usage and god forbid the city do with less.

To beat all we are now going to be paying even more in further rate increases for replacing a water treatment plant and infrastructure since the City mother (mayor) has been stealing the utilities surplus (about 4million year) and slipping it into the general fund. So $20 million that could have been used toward upgrades has now been blown on who knows what. to top it off she has built her own non green taj mahal in the center of town with absolutely no specifications for clean energy use. WHen you have friends like this in government, who needs enemies.

All of this is just an illustration of how bad it is going to get when one of the most precious resources we have is mismanaged and allowed to be abused by those who don’t know any better.

35 years ago I decided not to have children because I thought water might be an issue for children growing up. Guess I wasn’t far off.