mowermech wrote:
HMMM...
If I am on a municipal water/sewer system, where the water use is metered, and I fill my 100 gallon water tank from my outdoor faucet, then dump 50 to 75 gallons of waste water into the municipal sewer,
how is it that I am not paying for the water I used and the waste water I discharged?
Illegal dumping notwithstanding, nobody says you aren't paying for the water, or the sewage treatment for that matter, in the scenario you present. The issue is that you may not be legally permitted to discharge waste in this fashion per municipal ordinance.
As devil's advocate to your above scenario, say you added 100 gallons of water to your tank in a California campground and then brought it home to Texas to dump. You are not paying for the sewage treatment in that case.