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April 6, 2006
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United Water Idaho, Inc.
P. O. Box 190420
Boise ill 83719-0420
RE:Application to Increase Rates
By this letter, with a copy to the Idaho Public Utilities Commission, we are writing to express our
extreme displeasure with your application to increase rates and charges. We uree the IPUC to disallow
all. or at least a major portion of. the propOsed nearly 18% increase requested.
There are few of us who do not appreciate the fact that costs of goods and services rarely decrease and we
tend not to protest small increases as they occur. However, requesting a rate hike of nearly one-fifth
seems exorbitant in the extreme. You expect your customers, a captive audience, to absorb the cost of
$14 million in investments you claim to have made. We have no say in how or where you make these so-
called "investments , whether they are needed or justified, yet we re expected to pick up the tab. No one
with deep pockets steps in to rescue us when our investments don t produce the income we would like!
Referring to your statement regarding the ' ongoing cost of operations , we d be willing to bet little of that
represents increases in the salaries ofthe office and blue-collar workers in your employ. Do they have the
kind of job security and benefits offered to the citizens of France or does United Water take every
advantage possible operating in a right to work state? While you are pleading poverty, why don t you
publicize what the executives at United Water are being paid in salary, bonuses, and perks? Daily, we see
examples of how employees, customers, and stockholders alike are raped just to satisfy the greed of a few
at the top (do the names Albertson and Enron ring a bell?). Just what measures are you proposing to
take to see that people on low incomes are not, once again, victimized? Do you think we are too stupid to
realize that an across the board increase will also, in many ways, be passed along to us as the cost of
doing business?
Frankly, we have little interest in seeing your profit margin increase in order to send more American
dollars to France, where they hate anything and everything about the United States and its citizens.
don t give a damn if United Water execs have to take a pay cut, give up an expensive house, car, or a
European vacation. We don t care if United Water maintains a 'sound fmancial position . Quite frankly,
d be perfectly content to see United Water in bankruptcy and forced to sell out to an American
company (preferably at pennies on the dollar)!
We don t buy French products, we don t drink French wine, and if you need money, put in a call to
Jacques Chime!
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Patricia G. Harris
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Idaho Public Utilities Commission
P. O. Box 83720
Boise ill 83720-0074
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:e copy of the proposal is available at the
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You can also file a comment on the Application via the IPUC website at:
httP://WWW.Duc.state.id.us/scripts/polvform.dll/ipuc
Or mai I comments to:
Idaho Public Utilities Commission
O. Box 83720
Boise, Idaho 83720-0074
United Water Idaho Inc.
O. Box 190420
Boise, Idaho 83719-0420
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