So, last week, after much wrangling and teeth-gnashing, the mighty Metropolitan Water District of Southern California approved a 5 percent rate hike for next year, and another 5 percent rate hike for the year after that. It could have been worse: The recommendation was to hike rates 7.5 percent next year, and 5 percent the year [...]

The website displays a clock counting down seconds to Tuesday’s board meeting of Southern California’s major water wholesaler. It is part of a new front in California’s water wars opened by the agency that purchases water for San Diego and its suburbs. The San Diego County Water Authority launched the website last month to attack [...]

Walking around his grove, it’s almost painful for Al Stehly to look at the avocado trees. “See, this here is a little bit of tip burn. The browning tips on thousands of avocado trees.  It’s not from the latest bug to hit the region or a disease, but rather it’s from water or lack there [...]

San Francisco Chronicle – Of all the unanswered questions about a plan that could result in a giant pipeline to move water out of the Sacramento River, and under the fragile Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, perhaps the biggest is how high Californians’ water bills will rise. The answer to that question could doom the project, [...]

U-T San Diego – The Metropolitan Water District Tuesday postponed final action on a proposed rate increase, but the vote belied strained tensions between the wholesaler and the San Diego County Water Authority. County water authority officials have been on the offensive trying to force Metropolitan to cut spending rather than rely on increasing water [...]

County water officials say documents show secret coalition steers Metropolitan decisions                                    U-T San Diego – San Diego County water officials claimed Monday to have uncovered evidence of a “shadow government” that secretly controls key budget decisions for the Metropolitan Water District as part of a coordinated campaign to discredit the county water authority’s push [...]

KUSI News San Diego – Local community leaders were in Los Angeles Monday to protest a rate hike proposed by the Municipal Water District. The San Diego Water Authority says MWD has illegally added extra charges to the delivery cost of water. The board of directors is scheduled to vote on this proposal Tuesday. KUSI’s [...]

Fox 5, San Diego – If the Metropolitan Water District gets its way Tuesday, San Diegans can expect another water rate hike. But city leader and water officials in San Diego tried to put a stop to it by protesting a hearing in Los Angeles where the issue was being debated Monday. “Since 2006, Metropolitan [...]

KABC-TV 7, Los Angeles – A public hearing was held on Monday on a proposal for a two-year water rate hike that will affect 19 million people in Southern California. The water rates are going up, but the question is, by how much? “Typically the average consumer gets about half their water from Metropolitan, so [...]

North County Times – A “secret shadow government” within Southern California’s largest water wholesaler, called the “Secret Society,” has pushed millions in unjustified extra charges onto San Diego County ratepayers, the San Diego County Water Authority said Monday. The sensational accusations against Metropolitan Water District dramatically escalate claims previously made in a lawsuit by the [...]