Perspective
May 30, 2015
VIDEO: Tiered rates may violate state law
A new appellate case may jeopardize efforts to impose conservation-based water supply charges, at least without a careful cost study on which to base the rates. By Mark Hattam
This article originally ran April 27
Most public California water agencies have established tiered water rates based on
water volumes used, often to encourage - through market forces - water conservation.
However, just when California is struggling through a record drought, and as water
agencies seek to comply with Gov. Jerry Brown's April 1 executive order mandating
a s...
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