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San Diego: ‘There is no more cheap water’

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 16, 2009 at 6:17 am

From the Voice of San Diego:

“Taking a 10-minute shower in early 2007 cost a dime in San Diego. By July 2010, that same shower will cost 15 cents.

But apply that increase across every way water is used at home — the lawn, the laundry, the dishes — and the increase is more striking. The average San Diegan’s monthly water bill was $43.13 in January 2007. By next July, it’ll be $68.45 — a 58 percent increase for the same amount of use.

Earlier droughts in the 1970s and 1990s brought similar rate spikes. But after three years of increases, this spike hasn’t peaked yet and the end isn’t in sight. The San Diego County Water Authority, the major water supplier for San Diego and other local cities, forecasts its rates rising every year and doubling by 2018, an increase that will hit the pocketbooks of almost every home and business in the region. …”

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November 16, 2009 · Filed Under San Diego

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