San Diego online forum poses the question, Is water a scarce resource we’ll have to ration? Or is it just going to be more valuable?

The Voice of San Diego is conducting an online forum titled, “The Game of Pricing in San Diego”.

Well, this is a panel discussion. Except you don’t have to go anywhere to see it and you don’t have to write your question on a note card and give it to someone to give to the moderator.

Send it to me (scott.lewis@voiceofsandiego.org). Or comment and ask the panelists directly.

Nothing is more important to San Diego than its water supply. We import the vast majority of this precious resource from hundreds of miles away through a system of rivers, pumps, canals and reservoirs. Along those routes, more and more people are building homes and businesses and challenging our rights to bring so much water in from so far away.

The city of San Diego is right now discussing how it should charge consumers for water. Officials have had trouble explaining why they can’t — or don’t want to — implement a tiered-rate structure that rewards conservation and forces major consumers of water to pay for it. As reporter Rob Davis deadpanned the other day: “Someone at City Hall must really like San Diego’s existing water rate structure.”

Davis has done some excellent work chronicling the city’s struggles with this policy. But how should we price water?

Read the panelist’s essays and join the discussion at the Voice of San Diego by clicking here.

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