Talk:Water supply and sanitation in the United States
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I proposed to merge content from the Water Supply Sustainability into the Service provision section. The former article is hardly notable as standalone and describes rather an all-U.S. water management concept than a unique or regional one. --Futurano 08:53, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your suggestion. However, I believe that the article Water Supply Sustainability does not belong in that section and does not add relevant information to the article Water supply and sanitation in the United States#Service provision.--Mschiffler 00:07, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
- I could agree. Where else could we put it? Or is it basically unnotable as a piece of text? --Futurano 11:20, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- I {{prod}}ded the article and it was deleted ... my reason was that the article merely addressed one specific definition of a rather broad concept – Wikipedia is not a dictionary. An article on the concept of water supply sustainability may be worthwhile, but one on sustainability as defined and implemented by a single regional governmental body is unnecessary. Cheers, Black Falcon (Talk) 16:13, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
- Good decision.--Mschiffler 22:36, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
- I {{prod}}ded the article and it was deleted ... my reason was that the article merely addressed one specific definition of a rather broad concept – Wikipedia is not a dictionary. An article on the concept of water supply sustainability may be worthwhile, but one on sustainability as defined and implemented by a single regional governmental body is unnecessary. Cheers, Black Falcon (Talk) 16:13, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Billing Errors
Portland, Oregon had a rather nasty situation recently where the water utility discovered that they had been billing customers incorrectly for years. Customers were being surprised by very large bills (in the thousands of dollars in some cases) that were unexpected and due immediately. The billing software was blamed. I just read today about what looks like exactly the same kind of problem occurring in Indian River County, Florida. Why did Indian River County woman get $1,500 water bill? Is this worth a mention in the current article? SkyDot 10:08, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
I have added a section on billing accuracty to the article. Thanks for raising the issues.--Mschiffler 22:08, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
