During the electric competition between Lubbock Power & Light and what was then named Southwestern Public Service in the 1970s and 1980s, LP&L often made a marketing point of how its customers had the advantage of receiving only one bill for electricity and water. Southwestern customers had to pay a second bill to LP&L for water.
The point had validity then, and it still does. We can see no good reason behind the proposal under consideration to split city utility bills into an LP&L bill and a second bill that would assess customers for water and other costs.