An annual survey by the city of Piqua shows the amount you pay for your water can vary by hundreds of dollars from one municipality to the next. Communities just a few miles apart from each other can see big differences.

“If you go around the horn, (communities) are all doing infrastructure upgrades. It’s a continual process, one that it never stops, but that’s what the utility business is,” says Greene County Sanitary Engineering Director, Mark Chandler.

For 2026, the Greene County Board of County Commissioners approved a 3.5% inflationary water rate hike, with no change to the sewer rates. This is part of a plan that started in 2023, that Greene County planned to gradually increase water rates by 7% over the next years.