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Posted on 10/21/2015 7:01:42 PM PDT by smartyaz
Under orders to slash their water use in the fourth year of a statewide drought, Los Angeles residents and businesses have largely risen to the challenge.
But this week, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power officials said that because its customers have done such a good job saving, the agency is short on revenue.
To help fill in the gap, the Board of Water and Power Commissioners approved a pass-through charge that will require an average customer to pay about $1.80 more a month, beginning in 2016.
The 18 billion gallons of unsold water left the utility about $57 million in the hole. Officials say they need that money — about $380 million in total — to cover “fixed costs” such as pipe repairs, aqueduct maintenance and continued operation of water-treatment facilities. A city ordinance allows the utility to recover those costs from customers using a so-called water revenue adjustment factor.
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Aurora Colorado water board pulls the same B.S. They mandate conservation then penalize the citizens with higher fees, instead of firing people and cut costs.
I bet that kind of puts a damper on people’s desire to conserve water.
It’s like the game of Life....You’ve been robbed, pay $50,000.
They don’t desalinate big-time because it would cost too much.
Instead they badger us to use less water, destroy our lawns, risk destroying our vehicles, can’t keep them maintained, and then they charge us more for water, because we try to be good citizens.
Just desalinate the water and charge us a bit more.
This is NUTS!
Never a word about reducing COSTS to match INCOME.
It’s the liberal mindset. Conserve water. Oops, you’re conserving too much and we’re not getting our money so we’ll raise rates. And then people conserve even more until the water district collects money for water they don’t deliver.
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“Conserve water, but there’s a catch.”
“What’s the catch?”
“We have to maintain income level to operate the water system. So the more you conserve, the lower your bill, and the more we have to raise your rates.”
“That’s some catch.”
“It’s catch-22, and it’s the best there is.”
That is one thing that really ticks me off.. CA is going to underwrite (or spend outright) what is it some $50-$80 billion all in (maybe more) on a “speed train” that makes 16 stops over 300 miles and which has almost no natural demand, and yet they won’t invest in what is without question a national security issue, an economic imperative, and a survival prerequisite by building one single desal plant?
Orwellian.
You’re not using water, so we’re raising the price.
This was expected. Totally expected once the emphasis on conserving water began.
Never fails. Whenever the call goes out to conserve the prices go up. The water department loses too much money when we conserve.
They did the same thing years ago in San Diego. They got most people to conserve water. Was that good? Nope, because there wasn’t enough water flowing in the sewers to keep things “going” if you know what I mean.
So they had to send out crews to flush out the sewers.
Then, they discovered there wasn’t enough revenue to pay their great salaries, retirements, steal for other purposes, etc.
So they started a minimum charge and raised the rates on the actual water. So you couldn’t save money even if you used NO water.
That’s one of the reasons I moved.
And a nuclear power plant to operate the desal plant. It’s for the CO2, you know.
“It never rains but it pours”.......and we can’t save a drop of it.
I agree with the gist of your comments.
In fairness a desalination plant is coming on line close to San Diego. Will make hundreds of millions of gallons of drinkable water per day. Another plant in Santa Barbara that wasn’t being used, is coming online now that it is imperative to save or create more water.
You are right though. Here with a massive coastline, we could be making more than enough water to supply our needs, and we don’t.
I consider this an issue of total control. The government loves to threaten the public, and it’s about that simple here.
Four areas are of concern to me.
They refuse to increase our roads with adequate lanes, or even update the ones we have. California used to have the best roads second to none. Today they are in a disastrous condition for the most part.
They refuse to increase our power supply
They refuse to increase our water supply.
They steal our gas tax dollars and spend them on buses or rapid rail systems to nowhere. This leaves us short of highway funds, so they open up toll booths.
We’re talking mismanagement on a massive scale here.
All of it winds up putting the citizen behind the eight ball as the state plays games with our freedoms.
I thought I read somewhere that water in San Diego costs so little, the rest of the state is aggravated about it.
Decreased Revenues, great then DECREASE Spending to match.
You got me there, I don’t know. I left San Diego over 10 years ago for another state.
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