[meyer]

I don’t know if posters around the country realize that for a three bed room home without kids and only minor landscape irrigation, the water bill in the east Bay area is over $500.00 a month.

You can rent a cheap apartment around here for close to that! Wow.

Seriously, I pay an average of $20 per 2-month period for water. And no sewer bill because I'm on a septic system.

[KC Burke]

This is partly why there is a disconnect between California and the rest of the country when discussions of water usage, reservoirs, regulation, and similar come up.

These people (regardless of some inflated wages and salaries) are paying outrageous amounts (or percentages of incomes) for over regulated domestic water. And for water availability to be questionable when they are paying 10 to 20 times what water bills are elsewhere in the country shows how nasty this issue is in that state.

I now live in Arizona. We have hardly any water problems in comparison and this is a desert and plateau mountain state that gets very little moisture at all.