Shana Roberts is a registered nurse and a single mother of three, and her water bill usually runs between $111 and $140 a month. Then August arrived, and the bill from Fort Lauderdale came in at $896.
According to WSVN, as retold by The Cool Down, that was about eight times the charge from the month before. For a family on one income, it was a number that stopped her cold.
“I’m Not Watering The Whole Community”
In mid-August Roberts received a notice that the city had replaced her old meter with a smart meter. She had assumed the switch would simplify meter readings, not send her bill through the roof.
“I have never had that high of a bill, I mean, I’m not watering the whole community,” she said…