Some of you could keep in mind how, returned in February, I expressed my frustration that our household's water utilization have been gradually creeping upward over time for reasons that I could not apprehend. Where as soon as our quarterly water bill had constantly fallen into the primary tier of usage (below 800 cubic ft), it had commenced falling increasingly more regularly into the second one tier (800 to 999 cubic toes). And absolutely, we did no longer whatever to lessen it through including 3 new timber to the backyard in March, every of which goals no longer much less than five gallons of water every week?Not to say the 5 cherry bushes and the dozen raspberry canes. So it came as no marvel while our next water bill, shielding the duration from February thru mid-May, modified into all of the way up to 910 cubic ft. Disappointing, yes, however hardly ever beautiful.
What really baffles me is the bill I got yesterday, which covers the period from mid-May through early August. This includes the hottest part of the summer, during which we increased our tree-watering schedule to three times a week, and also continued to water the bushes and the vegetable garden on a regular basis. And our water usage for this period was...400 cubic feet. Half the cutoff for the lowest tier. Our daily water use, which had been over 70 gallons in the spring, had somehow dropped to less than 36 gallons in the summer. That's less than it's ever been, in all the time we've owned this house.
Naturally, this is right news?Or as an opportunity, it'd be if I may additionally want to allow myself to agree with it. But frankly, I sincerely can't hold near it. How is it feasible that, with out a extraordinary exchange in behavior, our water utilization climbed from round 50 gallons a day to 70?And then, out of nowhere, dropped to underneath forty yet again? Especially when the best alternate in conduct we had made at that element have become the after addition of a bunch of thirsty plants to our landscape, which have to have expanded our water use rather than lowering it?
I'm beginning to wonder whether or now not our water meter is truely mounted to whatever. Maybe the borough truely has a man coming spherical to our residence and placing it ahead by using way of a random quantity each month. In truth, maybe he saw my submit lower returned in February approximately how excessive our water invoice became getting and decided to drop it dramatically this month, simply to freak me out.
