. < sherri parker: it's stressful. it's overwhelming. sherri parker isn't holding back. sherri parker: it doesn't feel that we're living in a free country, if a city can put a small business' back up against the wall. sherri is the resident manager of "the pines" apartments, in henderson, near windmill and pecos. her troubles with the city started last march, after they changed the property's water sherri parker: our water bills have gone astronomical. they've gone from $4,500 up to $11,000, $12,000. sherri paid the skyrocketing bills... but called the city to find out what was going on. sherri parker: there must have been a misread on our meters, our bills are insane. things only got worse. in september, the city sent this letter to the pines. sherri parker: stating they had changed our meters out, and we were required to put in backflow devices. so what's that mean? when water flows through the meter and onto a property... a backflow prevention device stops possible contaminated water, from going back into the public system. sherri parker: we are now required to instal