{"id":13215,"date":"2013-03-07T10:58:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T16:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=13215"},"modified":"2013-03-11T12:15:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T17:15:47","slug":"interactive-map-the-cost-of-water-in-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/03\/07\/interactive-map-the-cost-of-water-in-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactive Map: The Cost of Water in Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Municipal Water Rates &#8211; 2012<\/h3><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/fusiontables\/embedviz?viz=MAP&q=select+col12+from+1M7SW6SGmKCFc1SEY-iTDP0zMOepofOKdgBjtdK4&h=false&lat=35.56818674804868&lng=-97.73366201782233&z=7&t=1&l=col12&y=2&tmplt=2\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n[module align=&#8221;right&#8221; width=&#8221;half&#8221; type=&#8221;aside&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3>Residential Water Rates<\/h3>\n<h4>5,000 Galons Per Month<\/h4>\n<h4>[\/module]<a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/03\/07\/interactive-map-the-cost-of-water-in-oklahoma\/ok-water-legend\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13259\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13259\" title=\"oK Water-legend\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/03\/oK-Water-legend.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/03\/oK-Water-legend.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/03\/oK-Water-legend-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h4><p>There are more than 750 local water authorities in Oklahoma. There isn&#8217;t a comprehensive database of water costs, but data from the Oklahoma Municipal League offers a snapshot of the rates residential and business customers pay each month.<\/p><p>The data, based on surveys the Municipal League conducts every other year, shows a wide range in water costs.<\/p><p>The lowest residential rates were reported in Gage, a tiny town of 440 people in far western Oklahoma, where residents pay $8.60 for 5,000 gallons a month.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>Fort Towson, a small town of about 500 in far southeastern Oklahoma, reported the highest residential water rates. Customers there pay $66 for the same amount of water.<\/p><p>The Municipal League survey includes data from 179 of its 462 member communities, says executive director Carolyn Stager. The data is broken down into two categories \u2014 residential and commercial customers \u2014 and divided by total monthly use of water.<\/p>\n<h3>Commercial Users<\/h3><p>Fort Supply, a town of about 300 in northwestern Oklahoma, has the cheapest rates for\u00a0water users in both\u00a0commercial\u00a0tiers \u2014 50,000 and 200,000 gallons a month, the data show.<\/p><p>When it comes to high costs for commercial customers, Stratford, a central Oklahoma town of about 1,500, is highest. Stratford businesses pay $750 a month for 50,000 gallons of water. The ironically named Commerce, a\u00a0northeastern Oklahoma city of about 2,400,\u00a0is the most expensive for customers in the largest use tier. In Commerce, commercial customers pay $2,451 per month for 200,000 gallons per month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Municipal Water Rates &#8211; 2012 [module align=&#8221;right&#8221; width=&#8221;half&#8221; type=&#8221;aside&#8221;] Residential Water Rates 5,000 Galons Per Month [\/module]There are more than 750 local water authorities in Oklahoma. There isn&#8217;t a comprehensive database of water costs, but data from the Oklahoma Municipal League offers a snapshot of the rates residential and business customers pay each month.The data, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":13230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[491],"tags":[427,93],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}