The giant Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which supplies water to member agencies serving 19 million people from Ventura to Riverside to San Diego, raised the basic rate it charges its customers by 75 percent from 2006 to 2012 and has 5 percent raises scheduled this year and again in 2014. This staggering short-term [...]
Southern California’s largest water agency has accumulated an estimated $545 million in debt because of an uncommon retirement benefit it has promised employees: lifetime medical care. The cost will eventually be passed on to millions of Southern California water consumers. If employees work at the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California for at least 10 [...]
By Don Ings & Malin Burnham 5 p.m.Feb. 2, 2013 Over the years, we’ve come to expect the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to behave badly in its dealings with the San Diego County Water Authority, but its latest act sets a new low-water mark. Since 2006, the giant Los Angeles wholesaler, [...]
An L.A.-based water district, which has long been at war with San Diego’s regional water municipality, secretly hired local lobbyists, and hid the work through a small, member agency in Riverside County, according to the San Diego County Water Authority. California Strategies, LLC, a local lobbying outfit, is being paid $15,000 a month to work [...]
Riverside’s water authority hired a consultant for $15,000 a month to work with key stakeholders in San Diego, like the Chamber of Commerce and the Economic Development Council. The San Diego County Water Authority, CWA, is wondering why. The allegation is that Riverside is siding with the powerful LA-based Metropolitan Water District, which is locked in [...]
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