RED ALERT: $12M Budget Shortfall; SFPUC Leans Toward 10% Annual Water Rate Increase over Next 4 Years: Water Consumption Down in Bay Area, So Get Ready to Pay A Lot More for Your Water! (Kelly Zito, SanFranciscoChronicle) 
Apr.20, 2009 in
Public Works, Water Conservation
(April 19, 2009, Kelly Zito, The San Francisco Chronicle)
“We’re out there telling people to use less water, and yet a lot of the revenue we have is based on what people use,” said Gary Breaux, finance director for the East Bay Municipal Utility District, which serves 1.3 million people in Contra Costa and Alameda counties. [...]
