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Interesting story of a quest to install a desalination plant. I was listening to one of the persons pushing the deal on a podcast. He had a baby at the time he

• sologoub 4y ago
  There is another facility that is supposedly progressing better in nearby Dana Point, but given our current state of affairs the denial is borderline criminal: https://www.kcet.org/news-community/can-desalination-be-a-solution-for-drought-in-socal https://www.kcet.org/news-community/can-desalination-be-a-so... The coastal commission citing socioeconomic concerns of water rate increases is especially strange, given that their mission has nothing to do with how much and who pays for water: https://www.coastal.ca.gov/whoweare.html https://www.coastal.ca.gov/whoweare.html A much better option would have been to have the local water agencies have households opt into the water at a higher rate and not be subject to limits, e.g. up to 80% of the limit, pay $X, then 20% pay $1.5X and then pay $3X to subsidize those who cannot pay. We have progressive rate schedules on many things and they work well enough. If enough people opt in, the subsidy from those paying a lot more could even be used to reduce or eliminate costs for low income households.