{"id":189994,"date":"2025-08-31T20:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/189994\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T20:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:14:10","slug":"philly-water-bills-to-increase-by-over-9-starting-monday-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/189994\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly water bills to increase by over 9% starting Monday \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/tag\/philadelphia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Philadelphia<\/a> water bills will be getting a 9.4% increase starting Monday, Sept. 2, 2025, city officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The increase breaks down to an average of $9 more a month for customers, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>The new rates were set by the \u00a0Philadelphia\u00a0Water, Sewer and Storm\u00a0Water\u00a0Rate Board, which is an independent city board that sets rates for the Philadelphia Water Department. <\/p>\n<p>The board said the rates are needed to maintain quality drinking water, as well as pay for infrastructure costs and other financial needs. <\/p>\n<p>Another rate increase of around 5.5% will also take effect in September 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia water bills will be getting a 9.4% increase starting Monday, Sept. 2, 2025, city officials said. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":189995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-189994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115125214713304742","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}