First, the PWSA’s executive director Michael Kenney resigned today in advance of a report expected to detail his inappropriate personal ties to a vendor providing line insurance to PWSA customers. It seems he used to work with some of the folks who founded the vendor company and he didn’t really tell many people about this little fact when the vendor was being selected. Given the current climate of Pittsburgh politics, I’m sad to say that none of this surprises me. Additionally, just look at the guy—he looks like the warden from The Shawshank Redemption.
The second turd to hit the water of the Pittsburgh toilet bowl was the announcement by the PWSA that they’re going to increase water rates by 7.7 percent. Almost 8 percent! PWSA says, “the increase is needed due to increasing costs of credit, declining usage, increasing operational costs and repairing and replacing aging infrastructure.”
Sounds like a bullshit answer to me. And the worst part about this is that this increase will just slide on by without the slightest opposition from the general public. Now, if Steelers tickets, lottery tickets or the drink tax were increasing by 7.7 percent, there would be people screaming on TV and picketing along Grant Street. But water? Eh, it’s only water.
Listen up, yinzers—this increase supposedly equals about $50 per year for the annual user, but keep letting these inept, slimy, stupid, and corrupt wankers raise your rates 7 percent every year, and pretty soon that $50 will be a whole lot more.
Before you know it, it’ll be cutting into your lottery ticket budget, n’at.
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