[Blue Highway]

Raise rates. The California solution.

[Rlsau1]

They could have used just a portion of the money they threw away on the rapid rail boondoggle to finance a project which actually benefited the population.

[ComputerGuy]

...finance an $8.2 billion water recycling plant that could provide enough annual water for 1.5 million people...

That's over $5K per person.

[mewzilla]

Beatings will continue until morale improves!

[roving]

Electric company gives you tips and how to cut cost and then everybody does it and they make no money. So they raised the rates to make up for it.

[mewzilla]

https://www.mwdh2o.com/budget-finance/

Good luck easily finding out how much money goes where.

Bet they’ve never had to undergo a decent audit.

[Mouton]

In Virginia circa 1977 there was a drought. The water people did all they could to conserve water. Being a good citizen I went overboard on saving. After the third billing cycle I got contacted by the water authority as they wanted to test my meter. Only day I was home was Saturday so they scheduled a meeting for then. Finally about midafternoon guy shows up, reads my meter, comes in takes some gallons from tap and goes out and reads meter again. Announces all is fine. I asked him why he was there and he replies my usage had dropped precipitously over the months. II said I am conserving like your organization requested. He said well you must be the only one! I was so POed I went back to normal usage as I gave up a day for this nonsense.

[Don W]

That’s exactly what the water board in the city I used to live in did: encouraged major reductions in water use then complained about lack of sales and raised the rates to make up the shortfall.

Conserve water from a recently enlarged reservoir system having nearly quadruple the standard per capita storage, in the Pacific Northwest rainforest.

The rates went from reasonable (for water that literally falls from the sky) to higher than what Israelis pay for water they have to manufacture and protect from terrorists.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

OK so they are skyrocketing rates to supply water to 1.5 million WHEN the need is for 19 million, liberal math!!!!

[guest7]

"...declining revenues due to increased water conservation..."

BS!!!

It's "Kalifornica". Waste, fraud, and mismanagement.

The Sacrament River; the L.A. River (a World Heritage Site); doesn't conserve a single drop of water.

This is the L.A.River.

Where they filmed the "Terminator Chase" scene.

The Kali Dems send it all back out into the Pacific Ocean.

They haven't built a reservoir in 34 years.

They are "saving" the two-inch, Snail Darter tho.

They are building a "Bullet Train" to nowhere. It's a few Billion over budget...but that shouldn't affect the water conservation problem...should it?