Home water rates are going up
The price of water in St. Louis went up Tuesday, and residents of St. Louis and St. Charles counties and Southern Illinois may be next to pay more when they turn on their water faucets at home.
St. Louis residents buy water from the city. The Board of Aldermen and the mayor passed a law to raise rates by 19 percent starting this month. A typical city resident will pay $58.80 every three months, up from $49.54.
Those rates will go up again on July 1, 2009, by 11 percent.
Meanwhile, the Missouri-American Water Co. is seeking rate increases for its 466,000 water customers in Missouri. The company asked state regulators this week to approve $50 million in annual rate increases. Increases would vary by community. Click here to read the full story.
