Election 2020: MWDOC Candidate Stacy Taylor Punted for Mesa Water’s $89 Monthly Desal Tax Proposal
In 2015, Stacy Taylor, Poseidon's water board candidate, punted for Mesa Water's proposed $1,000 yearly desal tax....
Election 2020: Karl Seckel for Municipal Water District of Orange County
For my small part in the effort to bring sanity to Orange County politics, and to prevent the financialization of our local water boards by...
Bad Branding: Mesa Water District’s Marketing Scheme Backfires: Looking Back to 2013
Lately, the people who act like they own the Mesa Water District, namely its five-member board of directors, general manager, and communications manager, have been...
Mesa Water: ‘Plz Don’t Circulate this Story!’ Looking Back to 2013
Standing over me , dour faced, Director Fisler snapped a couple of photos of me holding my doughnut on a plate and kindly offering it...
Mesa Water Vanity Leads to Questionable Consulting Fees: Looking Back to 2013
Mesa Water spent hundreds, if not thousands of dollars preparing its general manager and communications manager for a thirty minute interview with this reporter and...
Mesa Water’s Reliability Celebration: Misuse of Public Funds? Looking back
Editor’s note: This story was originally posted on March 12, 2013 as “Mesa Water’s Celebration: Misuse of Public Funds? Ratepayers Pay Thousands for ‘Private Event’....