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On the Public Record blog: Less hookers and blow than you would think. Tragic, really.

Posted by: Maven on July 30, 2010 at 7:09 am

From the On the Public Record blog:

“I love the North County Times water reporting. Couldn’t tell you whether the rest of the paper is any good, but I find their water reporting to be informative and thorough, with a good eye for detail. This op-ed in the North County Times, however, lacks their usual nuance. It is written by a Ms. Batra, who imagines her local water authorities to be an authoritarian bunch. I am at a loss, however, to understand exactly how their fiendish plots will work.

On the surface, Ms. Batra objects to a recent reversal of district rate policy. She writes that the people of Encinitas were promised a lower water rate if they conserved; on getting good conservation returns, four of five (city?) councilmembers canceled the lower rates. (I don’t know if this is the actual story, if there were a promise to reduce rates, what the vote was, what actually happened.) I strongly suspect the city had the same problem many districts had in the past drought. They had a poorly designed rate structure, one that spread the costs of their capital and operating costs over the amount of water they sold. When they sold less water, they suddenly found they couldn’t pay their fixed costs. … “

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July 30, 2010 · Filed Under Conservation

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