Chicago Plumbing Blog Author: jbaethke

The Chicago Sun Times wrote “many of those 313,993 other homeowners without water meters appear to be paying too much for water. And City Hall Knows it.” I disagree. What the city does know is that 25% of the water pumped out of Lake Michigan, 250,000,000 gallons a day is lost to leaks.

Small savings on the front end could turn into huge costs on the back-end. That’s exactly what happened to a long-term customer of ours who decided to go with another company a year ago to install a new water heater rather than using us.

Recently, we've been seeing increased attention on our nation's drinking water from all the major media outlets. Our water's safety is often taken for granted. Yet, while we take our drinking water for granted, our water is being threatened by various chemicals within our water supply.