Soaring water bills in Allegany County community force residents to cut usage"

About 1,200 people in Allegany County face a frightening choice every time they turn on their shower or open a water bill: risk their health or lose their homes.

"The thing that I'm afraid of is it's going to come down to a choice of do I lose my house?" said Rhonda Muir, a local resident. "I'm gonna get sick, we're gonna get sick. I mean, there's all kinds of scenarios."

These neighbors rely on a private water system owned by Maryland Water Service, operated by Nexus Water Group. When we reached out to the company multiple times for comment, Nexus Water Group defended their rates in an email response, saying they're regulated by the Public Service Commission.

But residents say that regulation isn't working.

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