Water Department
Pay your water bill.
Call the Water Department for current payment options, or pay by mail or at the City Hall counter.
Every way to pay
By phone, mail, or at the counter.
Online — residents are pointed to msezpay.com for the water bill. We have not been able to get the city to confirm in writing that this is its official portal, so check with City Hall on 601.736.8201 before you set up a payment there.
By phone — call the Water Department at 601.736.8201 for current payment options.
By mail — City of Columbia, 201 Second Street, Columbia, MS 39429
In person — City Hall, 201 Second Street, during business hours
Looking for municipal court fines? Those are not on the water portal — call Municipal Court directly at 601-736-4418.
Start or stop service
Moving in? Moving out?
Call the Water Department at 601.736.8201 to start or stop water service — connections are typically processed within two business days. Emergency line available around the clock.
Your water Your water
Clean water, deep roots.
Columbia's water comes from wells drawing on the Miocene Aquifer, stored in three reservoirs and delivered through roughly 16 miles of lines to about 863 meters across town. And the story runs deeper: the city's historic 1947 Waterworks building — an Art Moderne landmark — is being restored through a state preservation grant.