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Entries Tagged ‘higher water rates’

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)

(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. [...]

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One Step Closer to Mandatory Water Rationing: Silicon Valley Water Supplier Recommends 15% Mandatory Water Usage Reduction; Will 13 Water Retailers Who Supply Water to Customers via the Santa Clara Valley Water District Setup Tiered Water Rates? (MercuryNews)

(March 20, 2009, The Mercury News)

The pain of a full-blown summer drought came closer to reality Friday when the staff of Silicon Valley’s main water supplier recommended a 15 percent mandatory cutback.
If the board of the Santa Clara Valley Water District — which is the wholesale supplier of drinking water for 1.8 million people from [...]

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