They need to "foresee" cutting down their bonuses and stop paying salaries of 100k per year to all of their "friends" who work there. That's what they need to foresee.

How about bringing the salary of the top dogs down.

Sounds like all of those water mane breaks were costly to repair and now the bill gets pushed to us lil people.

It seems the water public company just want to keep up with the electric company concerning the super-mega-giga-googol bonuses for their "executives". This is barely-within-the-law-abuse on the part of the public companies (not all, but many). They give special bonuses to the "public servants" who come up with the most credible excuses to rise the fees, waste more money on meeting where regular people can express their opinion, they ingnore totally all the users opinions and rise the fees just as they had planned. And it's not only San Antonio, don't feel so bad.

MONEY GRAB. "Flexible...", as long as you pay extra for it. Allow well drilling on private land and we'll talk. Until then NO NEW RATES. How about renting lower cost offices from private land owners and cutting costs instead of front loading a "just in case" kind of rate increase. And you know what's even worse? There's not a thing we can do about it. If they want to do this, they will. Wake up SA!

STOP the corruption..............Hearst Corp. wants to hide this: ..... “Obama for America” co-chairman Castro and San Antonio TX City Council knowingly “passed” ordinances during illegal meetings in violation of the Texas Open Meeting Act since July 1, 2009. Their latest effort to spend $ 300 million was also fraught with bid-rigging and the usual crapola...... A Fifth Circuit federal appeals panel upheld the criminal penalty provision of the Texas Open Meetings Act on Sept 25...... The many corporations impacted by the bid-rigging/ TOMA violations/ impending lawsuits/delays are being contacted..... . http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Appeals-court-upholds-penalties-for-secret-3892829.php..... http://www.sanantoniolightning.com/enemy10.html..... http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Official-ran-afoul-of-city-policy-3881564.php..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9VL1nPBeak

How about charging the city's growth(growing new home population)the 6.9 percent.

Here's an idea, those who live downstream of the rivers that the aquifer feeds are always clamoring about how much upstream users draw from it. OK, how about them paying a fee for the water they receive and give SAWS that money to find alternate water sources.