As a quick follow-up to my earlier post on Windsor water usage, I did some quick number spinning.
0.70 megalitres = 700,000 litres (1 million litres = 1 megalitre)
700,000 litres = 700 m3 (cubic metres - how Windsor measures it's water for billing purposes)
2001 Census lists 95,049 households in Windsor.
If each household was able to reduce their usage by 100 m3 per year, the City would stand to lose roughly $7.4 million in revenue.
If by some miracle we were able to reduce our usage to something like .30 megalitres (still above the Provincial median and 4th highest in the Province), the City would stand to lose $29.5 million in revenue.
With the sewer surcharge at 190% of the water rate, approximately $4.8 million and $19.2 million would represent the reduction in sewer surcharge revenue from the above numbers.
Lots more to come on this issue.
