{"id":442948,"date":"2026-09-21T13:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T13:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/442948\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T13:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T13:30:08","slug":"poll-what-matters-most-to-you-when-it-comes-to-your-water-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/442948\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: What matters most to you when it comes to your water bill?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Water bills across Central Texas are climbing as cities invest in major infrastructure to keep up with growth. <\/p>\n<p>Georgetown, Round Rock and Cedar Park have all raised rates in recent years, with Georgetown seeing another increase next month tied to projects like its $272.4 million South Lake Water Project, which doubles the city&#8217;s treatment capacity.<\/p>\n<p>CBS Austin wants to know: What matters most to you when it comes to your water bill? Keeping rates low, reliable service, building for future growth, or conserving water?<\/p>\n<p>Cast your vote and see the results live on CBS Austin This Morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/counties-provide-flood-siren-updates-one-year-after-new-requirements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Counties provide flood siren updates one year after new state requirements<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Water bills across Central Texas are climbing as cities invest in major infrastructure to keep&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-442948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442948","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=442948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}