Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Our water is metered, so I've gone to high efficiency everything now. We pay for water and subsequently sewer. Separate charges. So the more water you use, the more of both you pay.
Is that unusual for Canada? It's fairly common in the US.
It is relatively new. We used to pay a static fee of around $35 for each service (I think it was actually $35 for water, $32 for sewer) so you could use however much you wanted and always paid the same. Electricity was flat-rate billed as well with it being 5.8 cents per KWh as recently as 2010. Since the Green Energy boondoggle, we're now on metered water, paying for every cubic meter. When I had a toilet that got stuck running, and I was travelling and didn't know (and my wife didn't know how to fix it or see it as an issue) our bill was close to $800.00. We've also moved to TOU billing for electricity with the cheapest tier at 8.8 cents per KWh with mid-peak at 12.2 and on-peak at 18. On top of that we pay delivery and of course tax. This will soon be compounded with a carbon tax, affecting both electricity and natural gas, propane, oil....etc.