2013, CHERYL TYISKA STARTED WORK AS THE NEW MANAGERat the historic Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington, D.C. One day, she sat down at her desk, opened the monthly water bill and was stunned into silence. The bill was $6,000 for the 88-acre pre-Civil War cemetery, which employed only a skeleton crew anddidn't even water the grass."Our actual water usage, the water that we actually flush toilets with or run the sink with or whatever, runs about $100 a month," she says. "But our water bill and all the associated fees that go with it was about $6,000 a month."
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