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Assets such as bridges, roads, parks, and water treatment plants wear out over time and are eventually renewed or replaced. Depreciation is the method used to account for the cost of these assets over the asset’s lives. Funding this depreciation through rates each year means that ratepayers now (and in the future) pay their share of the use of assets.