HOUSTON – A Houston Community College student is struggling with the financial burden of an unusually high water bill, recently discovered that for the past two years, he may have been paying for his neighbor’s water usage instead of his own.
Zeeshan Hyder Memon, an international student living on a tight budget, had been confused for months about his escalating water bill. His monthly charges ranged from $100 to $700, despite living in a small two-bedroom apartment.
“It’s $500, 18,000 gallons of water are being dumped every month, which I’m not even consuming in my two-bedroom apartment,” he said. “I don’t even have an income.”…