Conservation Rate Structure Explained

Buying in bulk can be a good thing, if there is plenty product. But water is a precious, limited resource. Everyone needs water, and Denton Water Utilities (DWU) believes everyone should be able to afford the water they need. DWU works hard to keep water affordable for all residents, charging only $3.63 per thousand gallons of water. That is a thousand gallons of water for less than the cost of two 20 oz bottles of water from a vending machine!

While we are proud to deliver high quality water to our residents’ homes and businesses at such a low rate, it becomes challenging to incentivize conservation when water is so inexpensive. Balancing water conservation and water affordability is a very serious challenge in a densely populated, drought prone region.

In response to this challenge, DWU uses a tiered rate structure, where we incentivize our customers NOT to buy in bulk. The amount of water resident uses determines their rate as follows: