Dunno where the estimate of drilled water came from, it didn’t come from California! My rate STARTS at $0.003 per gallon and goes up after I pass 4000 gallons (Ventura County).
Yes, desalination is about 1/3rd the price of water right now, in California. And we have a REALLY BIG BODY of it within a stone’s throw of my home. But we can’t do that, because desalination creates brine discharge and everyone KNOWS that putting salty brine into the ocean is a bad thing! /sarc
It’s the San Jose Water Company’s rates.