{"id":123234,"date":"2026-01-14T20:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/123234\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T20:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:03:08","slug":"el-paso-water-rate-hike-approved-residents-to-face-10-average-increase-in-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/123234\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Water rate hike approved; residents to face $10 average increase in bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The El Paso Water&#8217;s rate hike was approved on Wednesday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>During EPWater&#8217;s Public Service Board meeting, the board approved the utility&#8217;s budget for the fiscal year of 2026-2027. <\/p>\n<p>The approval will mean that, on average, residents could see a $10 increase in their water bills. <\/p>\n<p>The motion was passed in a vote of five to two, with Mayor Renard Johnson and the PSB&#8217;s Secretary-Treasurer Stefanie Block Uribarri voting against the increase.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Northeast El Paso has been under crisis for three days, with residents having either no service or under a water boil notice following a water main break <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/epwater-to-address-water-main-break-and-boil-water-notice-in-press-conference?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso Water reduces affected customers, boil water notice remains<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-water-main-break-prompts-boil-notice-repairs-underway?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso Water crews removed damaged 36-inch main as boil notice remains in effect<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The El Paso Water&#8217;s rate hike was approved on Wednesday afternoon. During EPWater&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-123234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}