OCWD Rate Increase: ‘Sucking it Up’ Will Lower Ratepayer Costs and Fill the Basin
OCWD continues to cover the costs (nearly $800,000, so far) of investigating a billion-dollar ocean desalination project that would raise the RA by hundreds of...
Why Do Some OCWD Board Members Loathe Being Watched? Looking Back to July, 2014
Earl revealed the contents of illegal meetings of the board’s executive committee, held without notice to other board members or the public...
Poseidon Project Opponents Plan Public Campaign
No more secret negotiations or deals with Poseidon and don’t make us pay an additional $5 billion in local water bills—$8,500 per ratepayer—over the next...
Ratepayers Picked Up the Tab for Mesa Water’s Fiduciary Fumbles: Looking Back to 2013
Paul Shoenberger spends too much of the ratepayers’ time and dime promoting desalination and not enough time looking out for them....
Evaporate the Cadiz Project
Allegations of Cadiz-related conflicts and self-dealing reached a peak last month when Santa Margarita Water District’s John Schatz, abruptly retired....
Closed Water Agency Meeting Violates the Brown Act
There has been an unsettling trend among water agencies to conduct more and more of the people’s business in closed session under the guise of...
Desalination: Focus on affordable solutions
Water harvesting, conservation, demand management– receive a tepid reception because water providers are paid to sell water, not conserve it....
Desalination: Yesterday’s solution
Everyone has skeletons in their closets, desalination is no exception. Burying them does a disservice to the millions of public dollars that have been invested....
Desalination: Unlocking answers from yesterday’s solution
There is powerful information waiting to be unleashed in water data. If it were set free it would force us to re-think how we use,...