When the Gainesville City Council voted Tuesday to raise the account service fee on water bills in lieu of increasing water rates, customers outside the city limits must have a felt a reversal of fortunes. That’s because after years of seeing reductions in the fee, which covers the cost of reading meters, sending bills and related customer service issues, it is now rising again. City officials began lowering the fee for some 39,000 nonresident water customers in 2011, dropping it from $7.66 down to $4 over two years and bringing the charge in line with what city residents pay.