BajaNomad
Not logged in [Login - Register]

Go To Bottom
Printable Version  
 Pages:  1  2
Author: Subject: water bill question
msteve1014
Senior Nomad
***




Posts: 947
Registered: 12-2-2006
Member Is Offline


[*] posted on 2-19-2013 at 05:42 PM


It's a deal if you use all that water. I'm never here, so my cost is going up, but I think I can handle it.:yes: Maybe I can sell water to people "off line". I'm sure my neighbors will work it out while I'm gone.




Quote:
Originally posted by rts551
B ack to the original question. Sorry Blanca...I will still have to travel the mile into town to get water....and eve n though I have asked the are not sure how much that will be. today it costs me 30 pesos per 1000 litres. which is 510 pesos per 17000...what a deal to live in town!
View user's profile
Pescador
Ultra Nomad
*****


Avatar


Posts: 3587
Registered: 10-17-2002
Location: Baja California Sur
Member Is Offline


[*] posted on 2-20-2013 at 08:58 AM


Quote:
Originally posted by MitchMan
In La Paz I am paid ahead all the time. It is quite stupid for the water department not to accept advance payments. Any and all accounting/billing systems can handle credits as easilly as debits. There is no difference in the amount of time or complication for them to handle a prepaid balance as it does an outstanding balance due. Makes no sense for their refusing to allow advance payment.

BTW, 17,000 liters is a lot of water for one month; that's about 150 gallons a day. Human consumption for showering, toilet, washing clothes and washing dishes should only be about 30 gallons or less per person per day. Irrigating a fruit tree only takes about 1 or max 2 gallons per day to irrigate.


That is because you are only looking at the situation as an accountant with little understanding of what is really going on. In all of the smaller villages and pueblos, the position with SAPA is normally a political assignment and they receive a percentage of the bill. We used to be able to pay ahead but they put a stop to that because the new person coming in to the position never got paid for the pre-payments.

In our village, there is a person who has taken it upon himself to accept the pre-pays, then he banks the money, pays the bills each month, and makes a little on interest. He even went so far as to have an actual contract drawn up. That worked fine until the new SAPA representative got a filing against him because of supposed lost income.

They also put meters in our small village but decided it was too much trouble to read them so we went back to flat rate.

Blanca started the thread talking about what happens in La Bocana which is about light years away from what happens in La Paz.




View user's profile
MitchMan
Super Nomad
****




Posts: 1856
Registered: 3-9-2009
Member Is Offline


[*] posted on 2-20-2013 at 10:41 AM


Pescador, if what you say is the case (re: political assignments and % compensation), that explains the issue. The point still remains, though, that there is no accounting/internal control basis for not taking prepayments; that's good to know. And, apparently, just some insider's compensation arrangement in small towns is the reason. Good to know that, too.
View user's profile Visit user's homepage
 Pages:  1  2

  Go To Top

 






All Content Copyright 1997- Q87 International; All Rights Reserved.
Powered by XMB; XMB Forum Software © 2001-2014 The XMB Group






"If it were lush and rich, one could understand the pull, but it is fierce and hostile and sullen. The stone mountains pile up to the sky and there is little fresh water. But we know we must go back if we live, and we don't know why." - Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortez

 

"People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care." - Theodore Roosevelt

 

"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them or to them." - Malcolm Forbes

 

"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." - Jim Rohn

 

"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." - Cunningham's Law







Thank you to Baja Bound Mexico Insurance Services for your long-term support of the BajaNomad.com Forums site.







Emergency Baja Contacts Include:

Desert Hawks; El Rosario-based ambulance transport; Emergency #: (616) 103-0262