Pumps' Perplexities

If you live in an apartment in a major city. these comments will be of no interest to you....If you live in rural America and have a well for a water supply to your dwelling, these comments
will be of not interest to you...Others may read on...
Each two or three months you receive a bill from the city, town or county for the amount of
water which has flowed through your dwelling...In a lot of places you are charged for the same
water going in and then coming out...The latter is a sewer service fee...
The water billed to your dwelling is measured in CCF (C=Hundred [in Latin] Cubic Feet)
The bill will have a basic minimum charge, for the water connection, and then added on is
each additional one hundred cubic of water consumed by your household...
Question how much water is there in a CCF?...
We do not drink water or other fluids by CCFs...
Now for all that care...A CCF (one hundred cubic feet) of water is 748 gallons...If you get a bill
for 20 CCF, that means 14,960 passed through your dwelling or a total of 2992 five gallon buckets...
This "post" is not intended to change your water usage habits, by any means...It just raises
the question, one does not give any thought to paying a bill that states "20 CCF"...But, would
one question a bill for 14,960 gallons?...Where did it all go?....
Actually it went down the sewer drain and they charged you again for a "sewage charge"...