Abstract
Prior to 1946, it was the usual practice, and still is in a great many cities in Illinois, to construct a water department budget, estimate the income from water rents, and put the difference between the expenses and the income into the city's general fund. When the needs of the city were greater than the money in the general fund would support, one way to increase the amount in the general fund was to reduce the water budget. If the needs were really urgent, water rates were increased and the increase transferred to the general fund. This has happened, and perhaps is still happening in other cities, but the author considers it wrong for the legislative body of any city to use its water rates as an indirect
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