water rate

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noun

a charge made for the public supply of water

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How to use water rate in a sentence

He admitted doubtfully that she was correct He was not the water rate.
To Win the Love He Sought|E. Phillips Oppenheim
Table IV gives the average water rate of different types of engines working at full load.
Steam Engines|Anonymous
These paid; but many shrewd fellows put off the obsequious collectors, and contrived to live water-rate free.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 447|Various
The water rate is paid by the house owners, and the tenant pays it in his rent.
Home Life in Germany|Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

The rate for house drainage is fixed at 80% of the minimum water rate levied on the consumer.
ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico|George Robert Graham Conway