You can type in your address and it will pull up a report for your house. It tells you exactly what is in your water.

In 1995 the board said that we don't believe we need those.

So basically, at this point, all indications point to the fact that we'll need to raise rates this calendar year. What we don't have nailed down yet is the percentage.

Every one of our pumps runs on electricity and in 2005, our electric bill was $13.6 million more than in 1995.

It's been a wake up call for all of us. The Board of Water Supply has been very cognizant of our responsibility to properly repair and replace our infrastructure over the years.

They tried to stretch as long as possible by dipping into tax reserves.

We just need to make sure that we are collecting enough revenues to run the operation, but we clearly are not in this to make money.

We're supposed to collect enough revenue to deliver water to our customers and make sure we have a safe and reliable water system.

We keep the water really, really, really low because the less water that's in the reservoir, the less pressure you're putting on the dam.