[quote=guidosmom]I saw your post and had to reply, since the exact same thing happened to us. We live in a nice neighborhood in Burbank. After coming home from 2 weeks in Italy, our water bill was $400 over normal!!! I have been in person to the dwp, showed ticket and hotel receipts, even had a representative from the dwp come and check to see if the meter matched up with the bill. It does. We have no leaks anywhere. Given our fence situation, there is unfortunately only one conclusion we can come to, and that is that our neighbor (the only direct one with a pool) tapped into our water supply to fill his pool. He knew the dates we were gone, and I can see on the detailed bill that he did it the night after we left, and the evening before we came home. I mean, the water was on full blast for periods of 10 to 12 hours. But, not having any proof, there is nothing we can do. We can only draw conclusions. It’s really hard to accept this betrayal, since he’s been a neighbor for over 20 years![/quote]

stories like this just make you want to install some bad-ass security camera all around the perimeter. probably would cost about the same price as the cost of the stolen water.