
{"id":6199,"date":"2009-06-15T06:17:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T14:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=6199"},"modified":"2009-06-15T06:17:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T14:17:40","slug":"for-the-record-cool-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/06\/15\/for-the-record-cool-water\/","title":{"rendered":"For the record: Cool water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many other local agencies, the Orange Water and Sewer Authority is trying to figure out just how to tighten its belt and still fulfill its obligations to its customers.<\/p>\n<p>The utility is poised to increase rates, and board members predict rate increases in the years ahead as well.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nOWASA has sought to trim the size of the increases by holding down capital costs, a move that is not always popular, as witnessed Monday night at the Chapel Hill Town Council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>There, council members, OWASA board members and neighbors of the utility\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wastewater treatment plant debated how to finish a long-awaited odor-abatement project.<\/p>\n<p>Strong voices were heard on all sides, including Braxton Foushee, Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s representative on the OWASA board, who said he could not support millions more for the project knowing that many residents were struggling or unable to pay their water bills.<\/p>\n<p>This example of yet another difficult trade-off is atypical, however, because there is a way for each of us to address the problem that worries Foushee and so many others.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called Taste of Hope.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re an OWASA customer, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a box on your water bill that allows you to contribute to a fund to help people unable to pay their bills. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one of the easiest and most economical ways to make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>With all that going for it, and with the need for neighbors to help neighbors even more important than ever, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d think Taste of Hope would be seeing a surge of enrollment.<\/p>\n<p>Stubbornly, and sadly, only about 10 percent of the customers in this mostly affluent, well-watered community have bothered to sign up.<\/p>\n<p>This is a call to the other 90 percent to take a moment and step up. Check the box and support Taste of Hope.<\/p>\n<p>If you need more information, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/owasa.org\/right\/TasteOfHope.aspx\">owasa.org\/right\/TasteOfHope.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many other local agencies, the Orange Water and Sewer Authority is trying to figure out just how to tighten its belt and still fulfill its obligations to its customers. The utility is poised to increase rates, and board members predict rate increases in the years ahead as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6200,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions\/6200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}