SoCal’s Water Wars and the ‘Secret Society’ — A Question of Transparency for Rate Payer Advocate Pickel to Probe Ron Kaye L.A. — Call for Fred Pickel, call for Fred Pickel — time to get your Office of Public Accountability and Rate Payer Advocate to do something more in the public interest than just taking home your $20,000 a month salary and figuring out how to justify massive water and power rate hikes. A starting point, Fred, is the little San Diego Water Authority paid advertisement in the right-hand corner of this blog. Click on where it says “Get the Facts.” It will take you to a website filled with allegations about how the Metropolitan Water District operates as a secret government basically run by our own Department of Water and Power… Help spread the word! Share this article:Tweet