'If you don't do this, we're going to shut your water': Texas residents challenge $4,500 meter demand

'If you don't do this, we're going to shut your water': Texas residents challenge $4,500 meter demand

Residents showed up at a water board meeting in Potosi, Texas, after letters from the local utility warned that households using one water meter for more than one home could have their service cut off. What many in the room feared most was the cost: keeping the water on could mean spending thousands of dollars on an additional meter. What happened? According to a report from KTXS 12, the meeting of the Potosi Water Supply Corporation drew a larg…