I get a monthly water/sewer bill.  How much was the bill that makes you retire your speed queen?

"They price their services to motivate people to use less and raise them even more once they do."
Which is exactly why I question the utilities "encouraging" us to save resources, when they are only going to put the price up.

A private company will not actively cull its business in such a way without consequences for the remaining consumer; that is, the price rise.

They only encourage "conservation" since it generates an outwardly positive motive.

Of course, if everyone decides to cut their utility usage by 50%, then who pays for the maintenance fees as a result? Well, in the end, we do, because we chose to be less wasteful. 

Now, it is a shame that you have to revert to what probably amounts to a fairly rubbish washer, but at least you'll save on clothes bills, as well as electric/gas usage (depending on your water heating) and detergent too. 

If you maintain any kind of a garden, you COULD setup some sort of system to reclaim water from the washer, and use it on your garden, and this would probably save similar amounts of water to storing the SQ for now. Perhaps you could do the same with the Frigidaire, and save a little extra. 

My monthly water/sewer bill if it is the city average of 600 cubic feet a month  is  about $67 a month.  So my project this year was to reduce my bill.  I water in the summer so I will pay this average or more but after having water bills of over $80 per month in the fall I started looking into the situation, since I have a front loader and a DW that uses about 3 to 4 gallons of water per cycle. 

I found part of the problem to be in the size of the supply pipes in my house.  I have 1 inch pipes but most houses in my area have 5/8 inch.  The 1 inch provides a lot of water and pressure, but in the winter I end up with these larger pipes full of cold water, so that when I want hot water in an upper floor bathroom I end up letting over 2 1/5 gallons of water go down the drain before the hot water reaches the faucet.

Now I capture this water in a bucket and use it as part of my toilet flush...this has helped keep me under this 600 CF average and reduced my bill to about 52 dollars a month.  $52 is a better number than $80.