Comments on: Water Shut Off? Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados Uses a Water Meter “Trick” On You http://puertorico.countrytoolbox.com/2009/05/21/water-shut-off-aaa-water-meter-trick/ Puerto Rico: Discover the Issues. Identify the Solutions. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:12:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: antigonum cajan http://puertorico.countrytoolbox.com/2009/05/21/water-shut-off-aaa-water-meter-trick/comment-page-1/#comment-300 antigonum cajan Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:23:14 +0000 http://puertorico.countrytoolbox.com/?p=1108#comment-300 Well, water will not last forever. It is necessary to pay for services like this. It is true that hundreds of millions of gallons of H2O is wasted all over the island through water pipe leaks, but no one is perfect. Fines should be charged to people irrigating ANY LAWNS, anywhere, anytime. Also people using a water hose as a broom, wasting water as if it is a gift from God. Incentives provided to collect rain water for irrigation, toilet use and such. If you do not want to pay for the service, collect from rain, buy by the gallons, or collect from rivers and streams, after all this is not the SAHARA. Well, water will not last forever. It is necessary to pay for services like this. It is true that hundreds of millions of gallons of H2O is wasted all
over the island through water pipe leaks, but no one is perfect.
Fines should be charged to people irrigating ANY LAWNS, anywhere, anytime.
Also people using a water hose as a broom, wasting water as if it is a gift from God.
Incentives provided to collect rain water for irrigation, toilet use and such.
If you do not want to pay for the service, collect from rain, buy by the gallons, or collect from rivers and streams, after all this is not the SAHARA.

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