In the Homewood Public Works office there is a computer with displays that show the status of the village’s water system. In a few weeks, Homewood Public Works staff will click a few buttons at that console starting the transition from the current water lines to a new set of[Read More…]
Tag: water cost
2. How much should water cost? Villages cover growing expenses
In a local grocery store recently, a 28-pack of half-liter Nestle bottled water, about four gallons, was on sale for $3. So each gallon cost about 75 cents. In Flossmoor, however, that 75 cents would purchase more than 50 gallons of water. Water supplied by our villages has gotten more[Read More…]
Intro: The ways of our water
What could be easier? You turn the kitchen tap and fill a glass with water. You take a shower. Or flush the toilet. Or water the lawn. It is, however, not that easy. Our water arrives via a circuitous process that starts in Lake Michigan and ends in Homewood and[Read More…]
