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In the discussion thread: Deal reached for massive Calif. desalination plant [View all]

Fri Sep 28, 2012, 01:27 PM

mitchtv (17,359 posts)

14. conservation brings in lower revenues

an Old SF trick "conserve, conserve, oops , you conserved too much, now we don't have enough revenue to run the dept, so we will have to raise rates. Thanks for doing such a good job!"

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42 replies	Author	Time	Post
Deal reached for massive Calif. desalination plant [View all]	bananas	Sep 2012	OP
Good thinking	4th law of robotics	Sep 2012	#1
As a 15 year resident of Carlsbad I would like to say its all good but there	grantcart	Sep 2012	#9
I had an HOA home in Carlsbad in the mid 1990s	cojoel	Sep 2012	#15
The desal plant will go next to the Encina Power Station. nt	bananas	Sep 2012	#34
Isn't it that the preliminary plant will go there and if it proves successful then	grantcart	Sep 2012	#36
Don't know, I haven't been following it. nt	bananas	Sep 2012	#37
Surfrider is against the desal plant.	bananas	Sep 2012	#38
This is good news, but they have got to do something to bring that price down.	cbayer	Sep 2012	#2
The problem now is if we all use less	MindPilot	Sep 2012	#5
How can that be? It is simply illogical.	cbayer	Sep 2012	#10
conservation brings in lower revenues	mitchtv	Sep 2012	#14
Ridiculous, no?	cbayer	Sep 2012	#16
hair pulling ridiculous	mitchtv	Sep 2012	#35
Not illogical if you think of water as a "product"	dixiegrrrrl	Sep 2012	#17
Which makes me think that we need to think of it as something other than	cbayer	Sep 2012	#18
Well, if one thinks of water and air as a "right" ....	dixiegrrrrl	Sep 2012	#19
Still worth going for it, imo.	cbayer	Sep 2012	#27
Here is Southern California, we spend very little to heat our houses and buildings, so	JDPriestly	Sep 2012	#31
It is crazy but they do that with the electrical rates	MindPilot	Sep 2012	#21
But that makes more sense.	cbayer	Sep 2012	#24
But they don't, that is the problem.	MindPilot	Sep 2012	#28
Then I misunderstood the other post.	cbayer	Sep 2012	#29
So their water producer is going to be privately owned	jsr	Sep 2012	#3
That so in the entire UK.	dipsydoodle	Sep 2012	#6
Unless the law has been changed, all water in the State of California belongs to the State of	JDPriestly	Sep 2012	#32
I think it's inevitable that desalination will become a major source of fresh water in SoCal...	slackmaster	Sep 2012	#4
It doesn't have to be this way	BlueStreak	Sep 2012	#7
Don't have to go all the way to AZ	jeff47	Sep 2012	#11
Good point. I was just thinking that AZ will have a great need for water.	BlueStreak	Sep 2012	#23
You have a specific spot in Arizona in mind?	XemaSab	Sep 2012	#12
Plenty of space southwest of Phoenix	BlueStreak	Sep 2012	#26
Solar arrays are not yet an inexpensive way of producing power even on a commercial scale	slackmaster	Sep 2012	#13
It is mostly capital cost. The ongoing costs are pretty competitive.	BlueStreak	Sep 2012	#22
Solar on the Roofs of Practically Everything	AndyTiedye	Sep 2012	#25
There is plenty of need for Arizona's and California's solar energy in states to the North.	JDPriestly	Sep 2012	#33
Finally! this is something S Cal has needed for decades.	Kablooie	Sep 2012	#8
Yeah!	Scairp	Sep 2012	#20
The fuel costs have been prohibitive and no one has wanted to take the risk.	cbayer	Sep 2012	#30
All states having acess to water from the ocean would be smart to do this	lovuian	Sep 2012	#39
This is a stupid idea.	hunter	Sep 2012	#40
I wasn't aware that the only possible source of power was nat gas.	Sirveri	Sep 2012	#41
Lot's of things are "possible."	hunter	Sep 2012	#42

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