CWA seeks to soften water rate hike

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has brought forth its revenue requirements for Fiscal Year 2008 which would equate to a 6.9 percent increase in water rates for Calendar Year 2008, and the San Diego County Water Authority seeks to negotiate with MWD for a less severe increase.

“We don’t want to sink Met. We don’t want them to not have all the money they need,” said Jim Bond, who represents the San Dieguito Water District on the County Water Authority board and is also one of four CWA delegates to the MWD board. “But we don’t want them to take money they don’t need.”

Bond...