How much is your monthly water bill?

Question

I live in Youngstown, OH. My waterbill is between $85 - 100 per month. No trash added. I called and they analized my usage and said that is normal for a family of four. I think it's high. I have lived in other parts of the country and have never paid this much.

Answer 1

It would be better if you listed how much water you used rather than the cost. My family of 3 uses around 3000-3500 gallons a month during non-watering months and I think JUST the water costs ~$20 but then there is sewer and trash as well.

Answer 2

You need to tell us how many gallons of water you are using. And for all the people who say that they pay nothing for well water, when was the last time you had to dig a new well, or even just replace the pump. Well water comes with a price too. Here in Paradise Valley, AZ. I pay 25% more per gallon than my neighbors across the street simply because the name of the town changes! How fair is that? Same water supplier.

Answer 3

My current water bill is zero, as I'm on a well.

When I lived on city water though, it was $75 a month in one house. That was for a private water system, consisting of 9 houses. So it was public water that we used, but the system itself was privatly owned by the 9 homeowners. The system was rapidly failing, as it was about 50 years old, and the $75 was to pay for all the repairs (patches) needed to keep water flowing to everyones house. The local public water system did not want to bother buying us out.

We were finally able to combind with another private water system near us, and be bought out by the public water system. That cost each homeowner $2000, to be paid over ten years (on their bills), and $25 a month for water.

This was all just water, not septic, as the homes were all on private septic systems.

At my Mom's house, same state, and county as the house above, it cost her $10 a month for water. Again, no septic.

Perhaps the above houses were unfair to compair to yours however. They were in Western Washington, where moisture/rainfal is complete plentiful, and we have fantastic watershed areas.

However when I lived in Eastern Washington, on the desert side of the state, water was $5 a month, and that included sewer. I was in a four plex apartment building at that time.

Your water price for a private home with four people in it seems high to me also.

~Garnet
Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

P.S. I only moved from Washington three years ago...those prices are still current prices.

Answer 4

I live in Michigan and when I lived in a small city I paid around $45 per month for water and sewer together. I have heard of others (in other cities, of course) having water bills around $80 a month! I think it just depends how much each city decides to charge.

Answer 5

You might need to check your house for any leaks. My water bill was really really high like using 20,000 gallons of water in only one month. I lived by myself and knew something was not right. I called a plumber and asked him to see if he could find anything wrong with the house and he found a leak. After it was fixed everything went back to normal.
(my bill is about $20 a month)

Answer 6

Wow! That is extremely high. I have four people living in my home and ours average is $25. We usually only shower once a day per person though. But we live in Texas, maybe it is different there than here. You should speak to someone else, maybe a supervisor.

Answer 7

That seems like a lot. I don't have a water bill as such, other than the electricity costs of running the pump for my well. However, the downside is that if something goes wrong, the bill is all mine, and can be quite high.

Answer 8

well Neighbor I am less then 25 minutes away from you my bill on the high side was 40 that is for 3 of us but i do a min. of 5 loads of laundry a day and i rent now but with if our bill goes over 60 me and my upstairs neighbor split the bill and with 6 of us, we haven't had to pay a water bill, i think your being screwed and would look into it further.

Answer 9

I pay $20 including trash

Answer 10

That is expensive , I live in Colonie New York ( Albany suburb) and we pay twice a year and cost is $2.00 per thousand gallons , works out to be about $140 per year..