“Nor Any Drop To Drink” 0
The California experiment–making the desert bloom, as the saying went, by shipping in water from everywhere else–lurches closer to failure.
Three of the largest Bay Area water agencies — the Santa Clara Valley Water District, the East Bay Municipal Utility District and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, which runs the Hetch Hetchy system — all are considering water rate hikes of up to 30 percent this year.
The agencies — which serve 5.8 million people, or about 80 percent of the Bay Area’s population — say they need to increase rates because they are selling a lot less water as customers conserve because of the drought.*
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*Catch 22. It’s the best catch there is.
